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almafu_9958355180302883
Format:
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Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2001. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110881103
Series Statement:
Studia Linguistica Germanica; 60
Content:
The auxiliary do (tun) is one of the most-discussed constructions in West Germanic. In German, there is a striking opposition between modern standard German, where the construction is virtually ungrammatical and considered to be "sub-standard" by most speakers, whilst, as this book shows, the construction is attested in all modern dialects as well as historic stages since 1350. In answering why auxiliary tun is ungrammatical in modern standard German, it is shown that the stigmatization of tun was caused by prescriptive grammarians in the 16th-18th century. Furthermore it is shown that the stigmatization of tun as "bad" German occurred in clearly discernible stages, from bad poetry (1550-1680), to bad written German (1680-1740) and finally to "bad" German in general (after 1740), thus providing evidence that the history of the standardization of German needs to take into account direct metalinguistic comments from prescriptive grammarians. The effectiveness of linguistic purism is also shown by evidence from two other constructions, namely polynegation and double perfect.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Content --
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Acknowledgements --
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Abbreviations --
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1. Introduction --
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2. Part I. The Distribution of Auxiliary Tun --
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3. Part II. The Stigmatization of Auxiliary Tun --
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4. Conclusion --
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5. Appendix: Data and Bibliographies.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110170245
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111776668
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9783110881103
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110881103
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