Eintrag

Titel

Das Deutsche und die dräuenden Apostrophe. Zur Verbreitung von 's im Gegenwartsdeutschen

Personen

Carmen Scherer

Jahr

2010

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik
Deutsche Sprache in Gegenwart und Geschichte

Seiten

1 - 24

Band

38

Heft

1

Schlagwörter

Graphematik
Morphologie

Abstract

Two main functions are attested for the apostrophe in German: the substitution of omitted letters ('phonographic apostrophe') as opposed to the indication of morpheme boundaries ('morphographic apostrophe'). While the first type of use is in accordance with the orthographical norm, the second one is not. Based on a corpus study of a total of more than 350 million word forms, the distribution of the apostrophe in a specific graphemic environment, namely before , will be investigated. It will be shown that 10¿20% of all apostrophes are used in case of genitive or plural formation. Furthermore, a detailed context analysis will reveal an interdependency between the different types of apostrophe and text type.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/37473