Publication details
Zu graphischen Refelexen der mhd. Lautentwicklung in der Pommersfelder Handschrift der Marienlegende von Heinrich von Cluzenere
| Title in English | Graphic Reflections of Middle High German Phonetic Development in the Pommerslfelden Manuscript of the Marian Legend by Heinirch Cluzenere |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia germanistica |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Graphic Reflections; Middle High German; Phonetic Development; Pommerslfelden Manuscript; Marian Legend; by Heinirch Cluzenere |
| Description | The present article suggests that any analysis of mediaeval German texts taking the phonetic form of language into consideration has to be based directly on the original manuscript. Standardized editions often obliterate phonetic variation, thus hindering comprehension. For example, the present analysis clearly indicates the difference in the phonetic realizations of the diphthongs ai/ay and ei/ey, which developed from -age- and -ege- by contraction; these diphthongs are both transcribed in K. Bartsch's edition as ei, which increases the number of homographs. By contrast, Bartsch distinguishes s (Germanic s) a z(z) (Germanic t) and restores the initial s in cluster sw-, which has no support in the original manuscript and which makes the language of the whole text unduly archaic. |
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