Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Germanistik 2020.11

Walk­ing on the gram­mat­i­cal­iza­tion path of the def­i­nite arti­cle: Func­tion­al main and side roads
This vol­ume focus­es on the gram­mat­i­cal­iza­tion of the def­i­nite arti­cle in Ger­man. It con­tains eight empir­i­cal­ly-based papers which exam­ine indi­vid­ual stages of the gram­mat­i­cal­iza­tion path from its begin­nings as a demon­stra­tive to the def­i­nite arti­cle and beyond. Focus­ing on cog­ni­tive, prag­mat­ic, seman­tic and syn­tac­tic fac­tors, the con­tri­bu­tions not only address the devel­op­ment from prag­mat­ic to seman­tic def­i­nite­ness, but also deal with func­tion­al and for­mal changes start­ing as soon as the lin­guis­tic unit has acquired the func­tion of mark­ing seman­tic def­i­nite­ness. Based on cor­po­ra span­ning the entire his­to­ry of the Ger­man lan­guage, from Old High Ger­man (750‑1050) to present-day Ger­man, the analy­ses chal­lenge the tra­di­tion­al lin­ear mod­el of gram­mat­i­cal­iza­tion and pro­vide alter­na­tive path­ways. What all the con­tri­bu­tions have in com­mon is the idea that the main gram­mat­i­cal­iza­tion path is accom­pa­nied or crossed by sev­er­al side roads which lead to dif­fer­ent des­ti­na­tions such as prepo­si­tion-arti­cle-cli­tics, gener­ic usages or onymic arti­cles.
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Affect­ing grace: the­atre, sub­ject, and the Shake­speare­an para­dox in Ger­man lit­er­a­ture from Less­ing to Kleist
Affect­ing Grace exam­ines the impor­tance of Shakespeare’s poet­ry and plays with­in Ger­man lit­er­a­ture and thought after 1750 – includ­ing its rela­tion­ship to Ger­man clas­si­cism, which favoured unre­flect­ed ease over the­atri­cal­i­ty.
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