Prateritumschwund und Diskursgrammatik : Prateritumschwund in gesamteuropaischen Bezugen--areale Ausbreitung, heterogene Entstehung, Parsing sowie diskursgrammaische Grundlagen und Zusammenhange / von Werner Abraham, C. Jac Conradie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abraham, Werner.

Contributor:

Conradie, C. J.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistic change.

Discourse analysis.

German language--Discourse analysis.

German language.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Parsing.

Physical Description:

xii, 148 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2001.

Language Note:

German

Summary:

This work demonstrates that what is commonly called 'preterite decay in Upper German' (PS; cf. German Präteritumschwund) is in fact a phenomenon common to a great number of European languages, all of which are in areal con-tact. However, the conclusion that this is a phenomenon arising under areal influence appears clearly mistaken - not only so because it would no more than postpone the search for the real trigger of this development. It will be shown, first, that the preterite loss in the languages under inspection comes in different states of completion. It will be seen that the loss of the preterite, under this perspective, German is by no means a completed process. Second, and what is more, it will be argued that the trigger for this decay of the synthetic preterite and its replacement by analytic preterite forms is the specific criteria under which oral (as opposed to written) communication is executed. Counter to the rich, existing literature on the topic, a number of parsing principles will be claimed to be responsible for this diachronic development yielding different results due to a different execution of these principles.

Contents:

Präteritumschwund und Diskursgrammatik

Title page

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Table of contents

Abstract

Chapter 1: Präteritumschwund in gesamteuropäischen Bezügen

Chapter 2: Präteritumschwund (PS) im frühen Afrikaans

Chapter 3: Der oberdeutsche Präteritumschwund unter neuer methodischer Sicht

Chapter 4: Parsing-und diskursprominente Eigenschaften des Deutschen

Chapter 5: Die Diskursfunktionen Thema -Rhema: Deutsche Grammatik zwischen Diskursprominenz und Parsingregularitäten

Chapter 6: Basisstruktur des deutschen Satzes unter diskursfunktionalem Gewicht: Inhaltlich-funktionale Kategorien und ableit

Chapter 7: Das Jiddische mit Präteritumschwund: SVO als Syntaxcalque aus dem Slawischen, SOV als deutsche Diskursstrategie

Chapter 8: Schluß zur parsing -methodischen Exerzitie über den Präteritumschwund allgemein und im Oberdeutschen im besonderen

Chapter 9: Nachtrag: Kurze Erläuterungen zu den Erklärthesen und Ursachenkriterien

References

Subjectindex.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-144) and index.

ISBN:

9786612162305

9781282162303

1282162306

9789027297969

9027297967

OCLC:

70769132