caa a22 4500 378908294 CHVBK 20180305123535.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040920xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/zfgl.2004.32.3.376 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zfgl.2004.32.3.376 Klein Wolf Peter Deskriptive statt präskriptiver Sprachwissenschaft!? [Descriptive instead of prescriptive linguistics!?] [Elektronische Daten] [Wolf Peter Klein] It is one of the main aims of modern linguistics to describe rather than prescribe linguistic forms and their uses. Normally, descriptive and prescriptive ways of reflecting on language are seen as antagonistic; e.g. a grammarian is either a descriptivist or a prescriptivist. In contrast to this antagonistic conception, the paper argues that the designation of a grammar as descriptive or prescriptive is rather a matter of scale than of antagonism. To hold this thesis, four dimensions are investigated in detail. A grammar might be classified as descriptive or prescriptive by analyzing the intention of its author (Autordimension), its reception (Rezipientendimension), its formulation as a text (Textdimension) and the ways a grammar extracts and treats linguistic data (Datendimension). On the basis of this assumption prescriptive ways of thinking about language are seen as inevitable even for modern linguists. This might be less of a problem than modern linguists have always presumed. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure nationallicence Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik Walter de Gruyter 32/3(2004-09-20), 376-405 0301-3294 32:3<376 2004 32 zfgl https://doi.org/10.1515/zfgl.2004.32.3.376 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zfgl.2004.32.3.376 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Klein Wolf Peter NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik Walter de Gruyter 32/3(2004-09-20), 376-405 0301-3294 32:3<376 2004 32 zfgl CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter