Anomalists
In linguistics, anomalists are the representatives of the thesis that a grown language has no logical structures and that these have to be created artificially when creating an expanded language . Thus, dialects are to be regarded as an anomaly that deviate from a desirable logically structured norm. Proponents of the opposite position are called analogists who emphasize that every organically grown system, like languages, has an inherent logic .
Both terms originally come from ancient Greece. At that time, the anomalists were represented by the Pergamon School , the analogists by the Alexandria School , including Aristarchus of Samothrace . They were taken up again in the German-speaking countries during the Baroque and Early Enlightenment periods when the task was to find a standardized and generally recognized national standard language . The anomalists ( Prince Ludwig I. von Anhalt-Köthen , Christian Gueintz ) advocated the thesis that such German must be derived from the recognized usage that is most widespread among the educated.
The most famous anomalists in German-speaking countries in the 18th century were Johann Christoph Gottsched and Johann Christoph Adelung .
Footnotes
- ↑ Markus Hundt: "Language work" in the 17th century. Studies on Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Justus Georg Schottelius and Christian Gueintz . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000 (Studia Linguistica Germanica 57), pp. 32-46. ISBN 3-11-016798-0 .
Web links
- Wilhelm Köller: Philosophy of grammar