Linguistic purism in action : how auxiliary tun was stigmatized in Early New High German / Nils Langer.
The auxiliary do (tun) is one of the most-discussed constructions in West Germanic. In German, there is a striking opposition between modern standard German, where the construction is virtually ungrammatical and considered to be "sub-standard" by most speakers, whilst, as this book shows,...
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