INKORPORATION, EXKORPORATION UND DIE FRAGE NACH NORM UND VARIANZ
INCORPORATION, EXCORPORATION AND THE QUESTION OF NORM AND VARIANCE

Summary/Abstract: When one writes compounds from nouns and verbs, there is a binary opposition: separate or together. However, there are three oppositions to the underlying linguistic structures: Before the verb can stay 1. a phrase (word group), 2. a nonphrasal syntactic element, or 3. a word part. Problems with standards arise only with the second type: The spelling usually follows the first type (separated), but there are also compunds that are written together (like Type 3). The paper shows that type 2 can be explained mainly by two phenomena: on the one hand, with the incorporation of an object, on the other with retrogression and subsequent excorporation. In discussing the spelling of such connections, half a dozen controversial individual cases have obscured the whole; all in all, the spelling of the German in the area discussed here is to be judged as appropriate.

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