TY  - JOUR
A1  - Werth, Alexander
T1  - Morphologie und Semantik der n-Erweiterung bei Muttern und Vatern im Deutschen
T2  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation
N2  - This paper deals with German kinship terms ending with the form "n" (Muttern, Vatern). Firstly, data from newspapers are presented that show that especially Muttern denotes very special meanings that can only be derived to a limited extent from the lexical base: a) Muttern referring to a home where mother cares for you, b) Muttern standing for overprotection, and c) Muttern representing a special food style (often embedded in prepositional phrases and/or comparative constructions like wie bei or wie von Muttern). Secondly, it is argued that the addition of n to kinship terms is not a word-formation pattern, but that these word forms are instead lexicalized and idiomatized in contemporary German. Hence, a diachronic scenario is applied to account for the data. It is argued in the present paper that the n-forms have been borrowed from Low German dialects, especially from constructional idioms of the type ‘X-wie bei Muttern’ and that forms were enriched by semantic concepts associated with the dialect.
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Verwandtschaftsbezeichnung
KW  - Wortbildung
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70532
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-705320
SN  - 2367-3877
VL  - 5.2021
IS  - 1
SP  - 37
EP  - 77
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Berlin
ER  -