Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000)

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Stephan Elspaß, Nils Langer, Joachim Scharloth, Wim Vandenbussche
Walter de Gruyter, Jul 26, 2011 - Foreign Language Study - 530 pages

Die Reihe Studia Linguistica Germanica (SLG), 1968 von Ludwig Erich Schmitt und Stefan Sonderegger begründet, ist ein renommiertes Publikationsorgan der germanistischen Linguistik. Die Reihe verfolgt das Ziel, mit dem Schwerpunkt auf sprach- und wissenschaftshistorischen Fragestellungen die gesamte Bandbreite des Faches zu repräsentieren. Dazu zählen u. a. Arbeiten zur historischen Grammatik und Semantik des Deutschen, zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Kultur, zur Geschichte der Sprachtheorie, zur Dialektologie, Lexikologie/Lexikographie, Textlinguistik und zur Einbettung des Deutschen in den europäischen Sprachkontext.

 

Contents

Deutsch ist eine würdelose Sprache On the history of a failed prescription
243
To boldly split the infinitive or not? Prescriptive traditions and current English usage
259
Norm consciousness and corpus constitution in the study of Earlier Modern Germanic languages
275
Variability and professionalism as prerequisites of standardization
295
Some notes on the linguistic competence of grammarschool students and teachers in the nineteenth century
309
The choice between the German or French language for the German nobility of the late 18th Century
333
Flirting at the fringe The status of the German varieties as perceived by language activists in Belgiums Areler Land
343
ideologies of hybridity and purity in the past and present
363

Time and Tyne corpusbased study of variation and change in relativization strategies in Tyneside English
99
the underlying progress of the language
115
crosslinguistic perspectives
129
On the history of verbal present participle converbs in English and Norwegian and the concept of change from below
149
The grammaticalization of geben to give in German and Luxembourgish
163
A corpusbased study of colloquial Flemish
179
Tussentaal as a source of change from below in Belgian Dutch A case study of substandardization processes in the chat language of Flemish teenagers
189
III Language norms and standardization in a view from below
205
The development of a unique Germanic Language variety
207
Zoo schrijve ek lievers my sort Afrikaans Speaker agency identity and resistance in the history of Afrikaans
221
The planning of modern Norwegian as a sociolinguistic experiment from below
379
The death of Standard German in 19thcentury Budapest A case study on the role of linguistic ideologies in language shift
405
The disappearance of German from Bergen Norway
423
Societal multilingualism and language conflicts in Galicia in the 19th century
437
New data on language policy and language choice in 19thcentury Flemish city administrations
449
V Reflections on alternative language histories
471
Communicative genres as categories of a cultural history of communication
473
Deconstructing episodes in the history of English
495
Index
514
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Stephan Elspaß, University of Augsburg, Germany; Nils Langer, University of Bristol, UK; Joachim Scharloth, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Wim Vandenbussche , Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

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