B04
Register emergence and register change in Germanic
The main aim of this project is to study the emergence of registers in two early Germanic languages (German and Swedish) and to explore register change over time. The study will initially concentrate on individual authors with a comparatively wide range of text production, Notker III of St. Gallen for Old High German and Birgitta of Sweden for Old Swedish. This strict demarcation of sources will allow the study of the emergence of vernacular written registers twice under slightly differing conditions. Three research questions will be addressed: (i) How do new registers emerge in the history of German and Swedish? (ii) How do these newly established registers change over time, and, in particular, do they converge or diverge? (iii) How do register genesis and change relate to a shift of medium, from orally transmitted texts to texts written in the Roman alphabet, and in what ways are they dependent or independent of Latin transmission?
Members
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Karin Donhauser
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Muriel Norde
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
PD Dr. Lars Erik Zeige
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Members
Phil Beier
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Silke Unverzagt M.A.
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gohar Schnelle
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Student assistant
Celine Weisenfeld
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Publications & Presentations
Schnelle, Gohar; Beier, Phil (2021) Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta In: Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics FAU Erlangen [ViVo] Beier, Phil (2021) Latinsk påverkan på ett religiöst register? Framväxten av register i Heliga Birgittas uppenbarelser In: Svenska Språkets Historia 16 (SSH16) Lunds universitet [ViVo] Beier, Phil (2021) Register emergence and Register Change in St. Birgitta's revelations In: Sällskapet för östnordisk filologi (SÖF) femte internationella konferens [ViVo] Norde, Muriel; Beier, Phil (2020) Registergenes och registerförändring i fornsvenskan – det Birgittinska materialet In: Kollokviet för nordisk filologi (Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet Stockholms universitet) [ViVo]
Presentations
2021
2020
Events
2021-06-14
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta
Silke Unverzagt & Phil Beier (B04)
Contact
Prof. Dr. Karin Donhauser
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik+49 (0)30 2093 - 9635