Eintrag

Titel

Merkmal(s?)analyse, Seminar(s?)arbeit und Essen(s?)ausgabe: Zweifelsfälle der Verfugung als Indikatoren für Sprachwandel

Personen

Damaris Nübling, Renata Szczepaniak

Jahr

2011

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

Seiten

45 - 73

Band

30

Heft

1

Schlagwörter

Fugenelement
Sprachwandel

Abstract

Contemporary German abounds in doubtful cases where linking elements alternate with zero elements, such as 'Seminar(+s?+)arbeit' 'term paper', 'Respekt(+s?+)person' 'person who commands respect'. This variation indicates a profound language change in the course of which the linking '+s+' has spread continuously since Early New High German and is replacing the zero element more and more often. Today, '+s+' is the most productive, progressive and most frequently occurring linking element. In this paper, we provide an explanation for the doubtful cases. Most often, the linking '+s+' depends directly on the phonological quality of the first part of the compound: the worse its phonological structure, the more likely the occurrence of the linking '+s+'. It occurs most regularly after first parts of compounds containing a suffix or an unstressed prefix ('Verkáuf+s+gespräch' 'sales conversation'), while words with an ideal phonological structure (monosyllabic or trochaic words) rarely attract the linking '+s+'. The variation concentrates on compounds whose first parts feature a stressed prefix ('Einkauf(+s?+)führer' 'shopping guide'). There is, however, a further factor which leads to fluctuation in the occurrence of the linking '+s+'. In cases where the second part of synthetic compounds such as 'Auftrag(+s?+)geber' 'client' contain a high degree of verbality, the linking '+s+' blurs the syntactic relation between the immediate constituents, strengthening the morphological character of the compound.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/69941