Areal variation in Middle High German

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-241
Author(s):  
Carsten Becker ◽  
Oliver Schallert
Keyword(s):  
Middle High German ◽  
German Original ◽  
Text Genre ◽  
Areal Variation

Abstract Using the Corpus der altdeutschen Originalurkunden ‘Corpus of Old German Original Charters’ (Wilhelm et al. 1932–2004), we will show that charters offer valuable information on dialectological differences during the Middle High German period. This text genre is unsurpassed in terms of its geographical resolution even though it faces certain challenges due to its partially formulaic style. With two well-known phenomena, i.e. inflected forms of the infinitive (‘gerunds’) and so-called ‘contracted’ verbs like haben/hân ‘have’, we will show how these materials can be analysed and put into perspective with other sources like the new Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik by Klein, Solms & Wegera (2018).

Age and text genre effects on capacity expended while reading

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas V. Petros ◽  
Barb K. Bentz ◽  
Tara Miller ◽  
David Tupa
Keyword(s):  
Text Genre

scholarly journals Mood alternation in German: Negation as a specific case of epistemic weakening

Glottotheory ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Abraham ◽  
Maiko Nishiwaki
Keyword(s):  
Middle High German ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Subjunctive Mood

AbstractThis paper is mainly about a unique case of syntactic epistemic weakening, i.e. the present subjunctive mood and its negation trigger in surface coordination. In contrast to modern colloquial German, which limits the use of the present subjunctive quite restrictively to root clauses, the older periods of German, Old and Middle High German, showed an extended use of the subjunctive beyond root, i.e. also in dependent structures. However, the semantically interpreted as well as the grammatical subjunctive got entirely lost in Modern colloquial, albeit not quite in Standard written German. The focus of this paper is the discussion of mood in early complex (subordinated or coordinated) negated sentences. Exploiting mainly the MHG text of the Lay of the Nibelungs, we focus on negated matrix structures, in superficially coordinated, but semantically dependent clauses. This suggests that the ne-particle in co-construction with the subjunctive on the predicate was used to code clausal dependence from the previous (negated) clause. In further course, in specific semantic constructions, the original Middle High German interpretability of paratactic negation and the consequent denotation of non-factual situations were lost and gave way to the pure syntactic coding of dependency. The triangle of triggers contributing to the complex phenomenon consists of 1. negation of different sorts and in various syntactic distributions, 2. dependency marking, and 3. indicative–subjunctive marking on the dependent predicate. The attempt is made to draw comparisons to other epistemicity triggers such as syntactic and lexical nonveridicals.

Text Genre and Science Content: Ease of Reading, Comprehension, and Reader Preference

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 487-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina N. Cervetti ◽  
Marco A. Bravo ◽  
Elfrieda H. Hiebert ◽  
P. David Pearson ◽  
Carolyn A. Jaynes
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Science Content ◽  
Text Genre ◽  
Reader Preference

Comparing Middle School Students’ Responses to Narrative Versus Expository Texts on Situational and Individual Interest

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Durik ◽  
◽  
Steven McGee ◽  
Edward Hansen ◽  
Jennifer Duck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Situational Interest ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
Individual Interest ◽  
School Students ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Text Genre

This project examined the effects of text genre on both situational and individual interest. Middle school students completed a three-session web-based learning module in the domain of ecology wherein they were randomly assigned to either narrative or expository readings that were matched on key idea units and other variables. Students reported individual interest in ecology on the day before and after their exposure to the module. Affective and cognitive situational interest was measured after the readings on each day of the module. The results showed that expository readings were perceived as more helpful for learning than were narrative readings, but this varied somewhat by initial individual interest. Although the narrative versions did not facilitate situational interest, there was a small effect on individual interest suggesting that learners exposed to narrative readings came to perceive the domain of ecology as a more meaningful discipline than did those exposed to expository readings.

scholarly journals A Middle High German Primer, with Grammar, Notes, and Glossary

1918 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Samuel Kroesch ◽  
Joseph Wright
Keyword(s):  
Middle High German
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