Morphologische Sonderklassen des Gegenwartsdeutschen und ihr sprachhistorischer Hintergrund
Morphological Special Classes of Contemporary German and their Linguistic-Historical Background

Author(s): Emilia Dentschewa
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Special classes in contemporary German; History of the German language
Summary/Abstract: This book has grown to a large extent out of my lectures on the history of the German language. Since, when conceptually designing the lecture courses on the history of the German language, I generally start from the premise that the diachronic data conveyed in philology classes should be used for the purpose of demonstrating the development and systematics of contemporary German, it is only natural that the presentation has a second, equally important focus alongside the narrowly linguistic-historical focus, which is committed to synchrony. By illuminating the linguistic-historical facts with regard to certain morphological special classes of contemporary German, the basis is created for a synchronic classification of the verbal inflection types in German, taking into account the diachronic specifics of their form formation. The two-pronged problem and task definition broadens the target audience of the book, so that it is aimed at students and teachers of German philology, but at the same time also at learners and teachers of German as a foreign language. Of course, this book is also aimed at all those who, for whatever reason, want to understand specific linguistic phenomena of the present and grasp causal relationships.

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