Middle Low German Grammar: Nominal Inflection

该项目的目的是为中低地德语提供一种新的科学语法，首先是关于屈折形态。在第一阶段，重点放在名词、形容词和代词的屈折变化上，作为项目的一个子目标。对所有这类词类的屈折变化形式以及它们的历时性、历时性和功能变化进行了分析。语法变化，这是历史语言的一个重要特征，将定性和定量地描述。这些分析是基于参考语料库中低德语/低莱茵什语（1200-1650）的语法注释文本，该语料库提供了对屈折特征的详细注释。除了词类和词形变化外，还对引理进行了注释。由于语料库是由“语言区域”、“时间”和“体裁”等参数构成的，因此它允许开发考虑到变化的语法描述。为了达到描述名词、形容词和代词在变化方面的屈折变化的目的，解决了以下步骤：(1)定义描述类别、结构和数据的适当表示。(2)对语料库数据进行额外的准备和注释，以扩展数据库中的<s:1>特定语法问题。(3)在语料库中创建和执行适当的搜索查询。(4)数据分析。(5)给出分析结果。(6)准备出版印刷版和电子版（开放获取）。

The aim of the project is to provide a new scientific grammar of the Middle Low German language, first of all concerning the inflectional morphology. In the first phase the focus lies on the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns as one subgoal of the project. For all these word classes the in-flection forms are presented als well as their diatopic, diachronic and functional variation. Gram-matical variation, which is a crucial feature of historical languages, will be described qualitatively as well as quantitatively.The analyses are based on grammatically annotated texts of the Reference Corpus Middle Low German / Low Rhenisch (1200–1650), which provides amongst others a detailled annotation of inflectional features. Besides the word classes and the inflection, the lemmata are annotated. As the corpus is structured by the parameters ‘language area’‚ ‘time‘ and ‘genre’, it allows developing a grammatical description taking variation into account.In order to achieve the goal of describing the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns with regard to variation the following steps are settled: (1) Defining the descriptional categories, the struc-ture and the appropriate presentation of the data. (2) The additional preparation and annotation of the corpus data in order to extent the data base für specific grammatical questions. (3) Creating and performing appropriate search queries in the corpus. (4) Analysing the data. (5) Presenting the results of the analyses. (6) Preparing the publication of a print version as well as an electronic ver-sion (open access).