Towards a Multifactorial Quantitative Account
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2020
This chapter proposes to establish a multifactorial model for the development of capitalisation in Early New High German in handwritten texts, which accounts for a range of linguistic dimensions of analysis, including the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic domains. Diachronic patterns of capitalisation are discussed in view of a range of contextualising factors which are judged to have an impact on the trends, including animacy, frequency, semantic roles, syntactic functions and socio-pragmatic factors. The authors develop a systematic and empirical approach to understanding the development of diachronic capitalisation in German, which promises to become increasingly more complex and precise during the course of its development.
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