Abstract
AbstractContemporary German shows a rigid lexical segregation between humans and animals (e. g.stillen/säugen›suckle/breastfeed‹,corpse/carcass›Leiche/Kadaver‹). This was not the case historically but only evolved in Early New High German and the beginning of the New High German period. This article lays out the emergence of the lexical boundary between humans and animals using the three lexical pairsessen/fressen›eat [human]/eat [animal]‹,trinken/saufen›drink [human]/drink [animal]‹ andschwanger/trächtig›pregnant [human]/pregnant [animal]‹ on the basis of extensive corpus and dictionary studies, and pursues the question why the segregation between human and animals emerged at all and why this happened in the 18th century.
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