Middle Dutch Sentence and Word Phonology

我们对早期日耳曼语言体系的了解来自手稿。在这个项目中，我们计划检查两份独立的中世纪荷兰手稿，时间大约相隔25年。第一份手稿Marshall-29保存在牛津大学图书馆，是现存最完整的中世纪荷兰手稿之一（布拉班特方言），共有102对开本。它写于1375年左右，包含了单词和句子音韵学的细节。由于手稿是完整的，到目前为止还没有一个可靠的版本，它为研究中古荷兰语音韵学提供了新的材料。我们感兴趣的第二份手稿是Comburg手稿，时间在1380-1425年之间，用佛兰德语写成，与Marshall-29相当接近。由于方言不同，在不同的社会交往情况下的不同变化将是特别有趣的。我们的中心目标是：a .根据我们鲜为人知的中世纪手稿的转录，追踪从中世纪到现代荷兰语600年的句子和单词语音系统。B.确定语音和句法结构不同的条件。C.从密切相关但地理位置不同的手稿中追踪方言变化的时间进程。更具体地说，我们计划实现以下目标：i)在转录的基础上，我们将提供15世纪中古荷兰语句子音系的全面共时分析（包括cliticisation，韵律构词和韵律短语），并追踪现代荷兰语的发展，触及14和17世纪基于其他手稿的系统。ii)分析中古荷兰语的音系，并追溯其发展到现代荷兰语，强调定性和定量两个方面。我们分析单词间和单词内的语音变化。（iii）制作《马歇尔-29》全文的抄本，供电子出版物查阅。由于《马歇尔29》是为数不多的中世纪荷兰非宗教文本的完整手稿之一，而且尚未得到多少研究，因此电子出版物将为这一时期的语言学和文学研究提供更多选择。这将是中古荷兰文献学的宝贵补充。我们相信，我们的工作将是至关重要的学者在句法语音界面，历史语言学和辩证法的工作。从更广泛的角度来看，这些结果将被添加到荷兰方言地图集中，为中世纪方言的句子音韵学提供宝贵的数据，并追溯其发展到现代。抄写和评论版将对荷兰诗歌和文学学者感兴趣，并提供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.