solecism

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A solecism ( ancient Greek σολοικισμός soloikismós ) is a gross linguistic error in the syntax , presumably named after the Greek city of Soli in Cilicia , whose inhabitants, probably adjacent by the influence of barbarian tribes , a difficult to understand Greek should have spoken. From the linguistic point of view, solocisms mainly occur when the parts of the sentence are not connected correctly.

A solocism can also be used as a conscious rhetorical device (eg: “Where do you want?”) - in classical rhetoric the licensed use was called Greek σχῆμα schêma , Latin schēma or figūra . The soloisms also include pleonasm , ellipse (also called ellipsis) and anacoluth (also called broken sentence).

literature

  • Fritz Lochner von Hüttenbach: Soloi and Soloikismos. A review and rethinking of an ancient technical term. In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . Volume 119, 1976, pp. 336-345.
  • Rudolf Zimmer: Equivalences between French and German: theory - corpus - indices. A context dictionary . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-484-60344-5 , p. 104 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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