Wegener’s Wortsatz and the notion of
sentence
This contribution aims to introduce Wegener’s defense of
the notion of Wortsatz (word sentence) as a
construction having a sentence status within the debate about the
notion and the definition of sentence and its structure that
developed in Germany during the second half of the nineteenth
century and the beginning of the 20th century. This period was
marked by different approaches towards this issue. In his work,
Wegener foreshadowed some of the topics which would be central in
the later pragmatic theory of communication, but on the other side
he still related to the psychologistic view of the sentence
structure.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.A minimal contextualization: Philipp Wegener on language and
speech/communication
- 3.On Satz and Wortsatz
- 3.1Sentence nature, function and
Wortsatz
- 3.2Sentence structure and Wortsatz
structure
- 4.Conclusions
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Notes
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References