Eintrag

Titel

Die Freiheit der Mittelfeldabfolge im Deutschen. Ein modernes Phänomen

Personen

Augustin Speyer

Jahr

2011

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur

Seiten

14 - 31

Band

133

Heft

1

Schlagwörter

Gegenwartssprache
Mittelfeld
Wortstellung

Abstract

Modern German is a language with relatively 'free' word order, i. e.: the serialization of constituents is dependent not only on syntactic requirements, but determined also by information structural or cognitive factors. As the same is true for Proto-Indoeuropean, it is tempting to assume that German perpetuates the PIE word order freedom. A corpus study of the relative order of accusative and dative object, using several Early New High German texts from the time between 1350 and 1550, stemming from 4 different dialect areas, shows that this assumption is wrong: German underwent a period of strictly syntactically governed constituent order (dative object before accusative object) which began before the Old High German period and lasted into the 16th century. Information structural or cognitive factors do not play a role for serializastion in this period. The relative position of the objects must be separated from the question of 'scrambling' in the sense that material is moved to the left of the subject, as we find examples of constituent order dative object before subject early on.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/69423