Sprachgeschichte: Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und ihrer Erforschung Vol. 1. 2nd edn. Ed.
by Werner Besch, Anne Betten,
Oskar Reichmann, and Stefan Sonderegger. (review)

Jeep, John M.

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“…In the 13th century, this was Eastphalian, but by the 14th century, Westphalian and North Low Saxon dialects had become more prominent due to the emergence of religious literature in these areas (Cordes 1983:352). During the 15th century, the center shifted firmly to Lübeck and the northeast in general (Cordes 1983:352), and most Middle Low German texts are from this period due to the prominence of the Hanseatic League (Meier & Möhn 2000:1471. As Middle Low German writing declined during the 17th century, it was the north that held on to it the longest (Cordes 1983:352).…”

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Old Saxon and Middle Low German Adverbs of Degree: A Case of Diachronic Discontinuity?

Visser

2023

J Ger Ling

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Middle Low German is generally considered to be a direct successor to Old Saxon. However, later dialects, including Middle Low German, differ from Old Saxon with respect to a number of features, which is unexpected under a direct succession relationship. To account for the presence of such features, some scholars attribute them to High German influence on Middle Low German (Wolff 1934, Stiles 1995, Stiles 2013). Others, however, hypothesize that written Old Saxon (which provides the basis for the comparison) was an artificial grapholect that reflected Old English and Franconian conventions rather than a genuine spoken language (Collitz 1901, Rooth 1973, Doane 1991:45–46). This paper further contributes to this discussion by examining the systems of degree adverbs in Old Saxon and Middle Low German. Based on data from different corpora, it is shown that the system in Old Saxon resembles the one in Old English, while the Middle Low German system is comparable to the systems in Middle High German and Early Middle Dutch. It is concluded that an explanation based solely on language contact is problematic, and that the grapholect hypothesis has more explanatory power.*

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Old Saxon and Middle Low German Adverbs of Degree: A Case of Diachronic Discontinuity?

Visser

2023

J Ger Ling

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Sprachgeschichte: Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und ihrer Erforschung Vol. 1. 2nd edn. Ed. by Werner Besch, Anne Betten, Oskar Reichmann, and Stefan Sonderegger. (review)

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Old Saxon and Middle Low German Adverbs of Degree: A Case of Diachronic Discontinuity?

Old Saxon and Middle Low German Adverbs of Degree: A Case of Diachronic Discontinuity?

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