A corpus-based sociolinguistic research on the historical establishment of linguistic norms in the modern Germany

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Takeda researched the notion of "familiar style of speaking" in the dictionary of Adelung (1793-1801) to reconstruct the sociolinguistic intuition of the learned citizens in the late 18th century Germany and reported it at the symposium in Heidelberg, March 2003. Morisawa treated in her research the co-relation between the Stadtsprache (= city language) and the Kanzleisprache (= office language) in the 16th century in Nuremberg. She came to the conclusion that as late as in the latter half of the 16th century, ordinary citizens (both male and female) used relative pronouns in the similar way as in the Kanzleisprache which was prestigious in the official communication. Abe discussed the differences between the official and private texts in regard to the verb position from the 17th and 18th century. His research showed that people tended to use the perfect frame construction more often in the official texts. Nakagawa made a report on the frame construction in the spoken German at the conference of Japan Society of German Language and Literature, October 2002. He published this in Doitsubungaku-Ronko (Society of German Language and Literature Osaka-Kobe), No. 44, 2002.