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Double Punctuation

On Mixing Dash with Other Punctuation Marks in Grammatical Descriptions in the 19th C. and in the First Half of the 20th C

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to a mixing of the dash with other punctuation marks, characteristic to the 19th c. texts, today hardly known procedure, absent from punctuation rules and analyses, and thus hard to interpret when one faces somewhat older texts. The author carried out a search query of about 800 publications referring to language, starting from the year 1700, and established that the procedure of mixing the dash with other punctuation marks was reported by 20 grammarians, in sum in 59 publications (including reprints) in the period 1830–1935. Lesiakowski also discusses what the authors wrote about the problem, what types of mixing they listed, how they interpreted and evaluated them as regards the correct usage rules, which meaning they attributed to them and if they employed them in their own writings. He also raises the treatment of the mixing in question in contemporary editions of 19th c. texts.

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