Middle Dutch Sentence and Word Phonology

我们对日耳曼早期语言系统的了解来自于手稿。在这个项目中，我们计划研究两个不同的中世纪荷兰语手稿，日期相隔约25年。第一份手稿《马歇尔-29》保存在Bodleian图书馆，是现存最完整的中世纪荷兰手稿之一(布拉班特方言)，由102对开本组成。它是在1375年左右用一只手写成的，包含了有关单词和句子音系学的引人入胜的细节。由于手稿是完整的，而且到目前为止还没有可靠的版本可供访问，它为中荷兰语音系学的研究提供了新的材料。我们感兴趣的第二个手稿是Comburg手稿，日期是1380年至1425年，用佛兰德语写成，相当接近马歇尔-29。由于方言不同，在不同的社会接触情况下的不同变化将是特别有趣的。我们的中心目标是：a.根据我们对鲜为人知的中世纪手稿的转录，追踪600年来从中世纪到现代荷兰语的句子和单词的语音系统。建立语音和句法结构不同的条件。C.从密切相关但地理上不同的手稿中追溯方言变异的时间进程。更具体地说，我们计划实现以下目标：i)在抄写的基础上，我们将对15世纪中荷兰语的句子音系学进行全面的共时分析(包括词缀、韵律构词和韵律短语)，并将其发展追溯到现代荷兰语，涉及基于其他手稿的14和17世纪的系统。ii)分析中荷兰语的音段音系学，并将其发展追溯到现代荷兰语，重点是定性和定量两个方面。我们分析单词之间以及单词内的语音变化。iii)制作马歇尔-29的完整文本的抄本，将通过电子出版物获取。由于《马歇尔29》是荷兰中世纪非宗教文本的为数不多的完整手稿之一，人们对它的研究还很少，电子出版物将增加这一时期语言和文学研究的选择。这将是对中世纪荷兰语文献学的宝贵补充。我们相信，我们的工作将对从事句法-音系学接口的学者、历史语言学和方言学家来说至关重要。在更广泛的视角下，这些成果将被添加到荷兰方言地图集中，提供关于中世纪方言句子音系学的宝贵数据，并将其发展追溯到现代。荷兰诗歌和文学的学者将对这本抄本和评论版感兴趣，并提供有关中世纪荷兰文化的信息。

Our knowledge of the linguistic systems of early Germanic come from manuscripts. In this project, we plan to examine two separate Middle Dutch manuscripts, dated about 25 years apart. The first manuscript, Marshall-29 is held at the Bodleian Library and is one of the most complete surviving Middle Dutch manuscripts (dialect of Brabant), comprising 102 folios. Written in a single hand around 1375 it contains absorbing details about word and sentence phonology. Since the manuscript is complete and has not been made accessible by a reliable edition so far, it provides new material for the study of Middle Dutch phonology. The second manuscript we are interested in is the Comburg manuscript, dated between 1380-1425 written in Flemish and fairly close to Marshall-29. Since the dialects are different, varying changes in different social contact situations will be of special interest.Our central goals are to: A. Trace the sentence and word phonological system for a period of 600 years, from Middle to Modern Dutch, based on our transcription of little-known medieval manuscripts. B. Establish the conditions under which phonological and syntactic structure differ. C. Trace the time-course of dialectal variation from manuscripts which are closely related but geographically apart. More specifically we plan to achieve the following:i) On the basis of the transcription, we will provide a comprehensive synchronic analysis of 15th-century Middle Dutch sentence phonology ( including cliticisation, prosodic word formation and and prosodic phrasing) and trace the development to Modern Dutch, touching on 14th and 17th century systems based on other manuscripts.ii) Analyse the segmental phonology of Middle Dutch and trace its development to Modern Dutch, with emphasis on both qualitative and quantitative aspects. We analyse across-word as well as within-word phonological alternations.iii) Produce a transcription of the complete text of Marshall-29 that will be made accessible by e-publication. Since Marshall 29 is one of the few complete manuscripts of Middle Dutch non-religious texts and has yet been little studied, e-publication will enhance the options for linguistic as well as literary research of this period. This will be an invaluable addition to Middle Dutch philology.We believe that our work will be vital for scholars working on the syntax-phonology interface, historical linguistics, and dialectologists. Within a broader perspective, the results will be added to the Dutch dialect atlas, providing invaluable data concerning sentence-phonology of medieval dialects and tracing the development to modern times. The transcription and critical edition will be of interest to scholars in Dutch poetry and literature, as well as provide information on medieval Dutch culture.