Anomalisten

As anomalists in the language sciences, the representatives of the thesis are that a grown language has no logical structures and one must artificially create them in the creation of an extension language. Thus, dialects are also to be regarded as anomaly, which differ from a desirable logically structured norm. The representatives of the opposite position are called analogists, who emphasize that every organically grown system, as well as languages, has an inherent logic.

Both terms originally come from Greek antiquity. At that time the anomalists were represented by the Pergamon school, the analogists by the Alexandria school, among others, with Aristarchus of Samothrace. In the time of the Baroque and the Early Enlightenment they were taken up again in the German-speaking world, when it came to finding a standardized and generally accepted supra-regional standard language. The anomalists (Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen, Christian Gueintz) argued that such a German had to be derived from the most widely accepted use among the educated.

The most famous anomalists in the German-speaking world were Johann Christoph Gottsched and Johann Christoph Adelung in the 18th century. Edit FootnotesQuote text Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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