punctuation
| Punctuation marks | |
|---|---|
| Comma, comma | , |
| Semicolon, semicolon | ; |
| Colon, colon | : |
| Point | . |
| Ellipsis | ... |
| Focus | · |
| bullet point | • |
| Question mark | ? |
| Exclamation, exclamation, call signs | ! |
| Apostrophe, apostrophe | ' |
|
- - Hyphen ; Hyphen ; Supplementary line |
|
| Indent ; Up line | - |
|
quotation marks "" »« / «» ‚'› ‹ / ‹ › |
|
| Slashes / \ | |
| Brackets () [] | |
Under punctuation (from latin interpunctio , including punctuation ) refers to the setting of punctuation in sets for clarity syntactic structures and setting word characters in words to illustrate morphological structures. Punctuation follows appropriate punctuation rules in every language.
See also
literature
- Burckhard Garbe (Ed.): Texts on the history of German punctuation and its reform 1462–1983. Olms, Hildesheim u. a. 1984, ISBN 3-487-07475-3 ( German Linguistics 4–6 / 83).
- Wilfried Kürschner : Grammatical Compendium. Systematic index of basic grammatical terms. 6th, updated edition. Francke, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-1526-2 ( UTB 1526 Linguistics ).
- Kevin Christopher Masalon: The German punctuation yesterday, today - and tomorrow (?): A corpus-based, diachronic investigation of punctuation as part of written language change in the field of tension between text pragmatics, system and norm with special consideration of the comma. Dissertation. Duisburg-Essen, May 5, 2014, available at http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-36075/Dissertation_Masalon.pdf .
- Karsten Rinas : Theory of Points and Lines. The history of the German punctuation theory. Winter, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8253-6800-5 .
Web links
Wiktionary: Punctuation - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Punctuation - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations