TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Kopf, Kristin
ED  - Ackermann, Tanja
ED  - Simon, Horst J.
ED  - Zimmer, Christian
T1  - From genitive suffix to linking element. A corpus study on the genesis and productivity of a new compounding pattern in (Early) New High German
T2  - Germanic genetives
N2  - Present-day German uses two formally different patterns of compounding in N+N compounds. The first combines bare stems (e.g. Tisch+decke ‘tablecloth’) while the second contains an intervening linking element (LE) as in Geburt-s-ort ‘birth-LE-place’. The linked compounding type developed in Early New High German (1350–1650) from phrasal constructions by reanalyzing genitive attributes as first constituents of compounds. The present paper uses corpus data to explore three key stages in this development: In the initial stage, it shows how prenominal non-specific genitive constructions lent themselves to reanalysis due to their functional overlap and formal similarity. Additionally, compounds seem to have replaced not only prenominal genitives, but also structurally different postnominal genitives. In the second stage, the new compounding pattern increases in productivity between 1500 and 1710, especially compared to the older pattern without linking elements. The last stage pertains to changes in spelling practice. It shows that linked compounds were written separately in the beginning. Their gradual graphematic integration into directly connected words was reversed by a century of hyphenation (1650–1750). This is strikingly different from present-day spelling practice and shows that the linked pattern was still perceived as marked.
T3  - Studies in Language Companion Series - 193 
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Nominalkompositum
KW  - Sprachgeschichte
KW  - Genitiv
Y1  - 2018
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-78970
SN  - 978-90-272-0023-5
SB  - 978-90-272-0023-5
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.193.05kop
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.193.05kop
N1  - This is a postprint of an article that was published in the book "Germanic genetives".
The published article is under copyright of Benjamins. The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.
SP  - 91
EP  - 114
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
ER  -