@article{RomstadtReinken2023,
  author    = {Jonas Romstadt and Niklas Reinken},
  title     = {Alles eine Frage der Form? Kommaformen in Handschriften und ihre funktionale Relevanz},
  series   = {Linguistische Berichte},
  number    = {273},
  editor    = {Markus Steinbach and Nina-Kristin Meister and G{\"u}nther Grewendorf and Armin von Stechow},
  publisher = {Helmut Buske},
  address   = {Hamburg},
  issn      = {2366-0775},
  doi       = {10.46771/9783967692792\_3},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-115439},
  pages     = {41 -- 63},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {There are strict formal requirements for the use of a comma. However, there are none regarding the comma’s actual shape. In printed fonts, it is determined by the font’s specification. In hand-written texts though, the shape of the comma is variable; most writers choose from a set of straight, convex and concave shapes. By using a corpus of 1464 commas written by 99 individuals, we will present three case studies of persons whose comma shapes do somehow correlate with linguistic structures. With that, we might identify a few (possibly subconscious) shaping strategies. Some writers might mark a norm insecurity by a different comma form, others might mark the function of the entity which is segmented by the comma, or the comma type itself (sentence boundary, exposition or coordination).},
  language  = {de}
}