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(0)Bernd Wiese
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Concern for the German language will always attract large audiences. Whoever claims that language is going to the dogs can be sure of the approbation of those who see themselves as linguistically superior. However, the status of grammatical rules is seldom questioned. It is in fact by no means clear what can be seen as correct German. How is 'German' to be understood? Who determines what should be regarded as correct? The 44th Annual Conference of...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Cross-language comparison can show where German structures diverge from and converge with those of other languages. The essays in the 2011 Yearbook of the Institute for German Language compare German with other languages on all grammatical levels, from photetics, phonology, graphematics, and morphology to syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and text grammar. In addition, the book presents new methods of language comparison from corpus linguistics. The...