THE PARADIGM OF VARIATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF PREPOSITIONS ‘INKLUSIVE’ AND ‘EXKLUSIVE’ IN MODERN GERMAN PRESS

Abstract

This article is devoted to the analysis and determining differences in the use of the prepositions ‘inklusive’ and ‘exklusive’ in German press and the rules of their usage found in German grammar books, Duden, for example. These prepositions actively penetrate into journalism with borrowed words, finding compatibility both with concrete and abstract nouns. Both show different regularity of use. The analysis of press materials has revealed variable case management − contrary to the rules found in grammar books. Formal structural factor is the basic factor affecting the use of case management. It is the use /or lack of the article, an accompanying word before a controlled noun, the position of the preposition, the type of declination of a noun used with the preposition − all these factors have the greatest impact on fluctuations in the use of prepositions in modern German language. According to the Duden grammar, the preposition ‘inklusive’ refers to the prepositions with Genitiv, but it is allowed − albeit less often − the Dativ. Prepositions as part of speech are one of those linguistic phenomena that are closely associated with the evolution of language, with those trends that manifest themselves in one or another language at a certain stage of its development. With a certain degree of certainty, it can be argued that the development of the prepositional system of language is a special case of that global process, which is based on the constant striving of the human brain to increasingly differentiate individual meanings.