Kalb’s Leber und Dienstag’s Schnitzeltag: Zur funktionalen Ausdifferenzierung des Apostrophs im Deutschen
This paper analyzes the non-standard use of the apostrophe in modern German texts. Traditionally, it is assumed that the apostrophe has a purely phonographic function in German, even though the first examples of non-phonographic apostrophes date back to the 17th century. Still today, spellings with...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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De Gruyter
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2013-0003 |
| Summary: | This paper analyzes the non-standard use of the apostrophe in
modern German texts. Traditionally, it is assumed that the apostrophe has a
purely phonographic function in German, even though the first examples of
non-phonographic apostrophes date back to the 17th century. Still today, spellings
with non-phonographic apostrophes, such as die Pizza’s, are considered
as mistakes or misspellings. However, the in-depth analysis of these spellings
reveals that the vast majority of non-phonographic apostrophes are not used at
haphazard. They rather indicate information about the morphological structure
of words: they either mark the right border of their left context, the left border
of their right context or the morphological border as such. |
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| ISSN: | 0721-9067 1613-3706 |