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

IF 0.4 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI:10.1017/S1470542722000162
Lourens Visser
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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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古撒克逊语和中古德语程度副词:一个长期间断的例子?
中古低地德语通常被认为是古撒克逊语的直接继承者。然而,后来的方言,包括中古低地德语,在许多特征上与古撒克逊人不同,这在直接继承关系下是意想不到的。为了解释这些特征的存在,一些学者将其归因于高地德语对中低地德语的影响(Wolff 1934, Stiles 1995, Stiles 2013)。然而,另一些人则假设,书面的古撒克逊语(为比较提供了基础)是一种人工笔迹,反映了古英语和法兰克人的习俗,而不是真正的口语(Collitz 1901, Rooth 1973, Doane 1991:45-46)。本文通过考察古撒克逊语和中古低地德语中程度副词的系统来进一步促进这一讨论。基于不同语料库的数据表明,古撒克逊语的系统与古英语的系统相似,而中古低地德语的系统与中古高地德语和中古早期荷兰语的系统相似。结论是,仅仅基于语言接触的解释是有问题的,而笔迹假说更具解释力
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