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Dieser Band vereint 20 BeitrAge aktueller Forschungen zur
Familiennamengeographie in Europa und bietet damit erstmals einen
Aoeberblick A1/4ber die internationale Forschung. Das Spektrum
reicht von lAnderA1/4bergreifenden Untersuchungen (Skandinavien)
A1/4ber lAnderspezifische Darstellungen (z. B. A-sterreich,
Deutschland, Niederlande, England, Polen, Spanien, Portugal) bis
hin zu kleinrAumigen PhAnomenen (z. B. Alemanisch,
Westmitteldeutsch). Zahlreiche Verbreitungskarten dokumentieren die
arealen VerhAltnisse.
The volume contains 19 articles corresponding in their spectrum to
the broad academic interests of Otmar Werner. They deal with
orthography and writing change, runes; island Nordic (Icelandic,
Faeroese); contrastive linguistics (German-Scandinavian);
linguistic ddescription of German from phonology, morphology,
syntax, dialectology to pragmatics; general linguistic (language
change) theory, language history and onomastics of Scandinavia;
medieval Scandinavian literature. The volume closes with a complete
listing of Otmar Werner's publications.
It has been customary to regard morphological irregularity as an
accident of language change and accordingly its eventual
disappearance as only a matter of time. This study undertakes a
fundamental re-evaluation of that assumption. On the basis of a
contrastive analysis of ten highly frequent verbs in ten Germanic
languages it shows that irregularity is in fact consistently
generated in an astonishingly systematic way. In the course of the
discussion it transpires that irregularity and brevity of
expression are closely associated. The detailed description of
irregularity principles is followed by a theoretical section. Here,
the negative concept of irregularity is replaced by that of
differentiation, which is shown to have a positive function in
connection with high token frequency because it allows for formal
brevity without any risk of syncretism. Against this background
total suppletion represents the ideal combination of maximal
differentiation and brevity of expression.
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