Des Menschens Genitive Normabweichende Genitiv-Varianten bei schwachen Maskulina

• Main Author: Wolfgang Krischke
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Bern Open Publishing 2012-01-01
• Series: Linguistik Online
• Online Access: http://www.linguistik-online.ch/53_12/krischke.html

Abstract The genitive singular of the weak masculine nouns appears in three non-standard variations in addition to the standard suffix -(e)n: one variation is case augmenting (des Bär-en-s), one is stem affixing (des Polizist-s) and one lacks a case suffix (des Patient-Ø). Linguists as well as language critics have focussed mainly on the stem affixing genitive while more or less ignor­ing the two other non-standard variations. This paper presents a corpus-based investigation regarding frequency and contexts of all three variations, also considering the diachronic back­ground and the implications the results might have for predicting the further development of the declension class of the weak masculine nouns.