Zusammenschreibung im Althochdeutschen und Altniederdeutschen bis ca. 975: Ergebnisse einer paläographischen Untersuchung

Word separation, an innovation of the early Middle Ages, was not yet as prominent in Old High German and Old Saxon records as it is in modern printing. A paleographic investigation, based on individual pages of ten different manuscripts mostly dating from the 9th century and originating from different scriptoria and dialect regions, unveils that clitics were often written together with their hosts. Individual differences between scribes are more important than date of a manuscript, dialectal provenance, or the language written: the usage of scribes by whom Latin as well as Old High German passages are attested does hardly display differences depending on the language.