Umlaut Phenomena in Early New High German Discourse is an investigation of the spread and regularization of umlaut in Early New High German that focuses on semantic and pragmatic influences. In a detailed analysis of excerpts from three texts--Brant's Narrenschiff, von Tepl's Ackermann von Bhmen, and Luther's Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen--lexical items displaying variation in umlaut spelling are compared in an attempt to isolate discourse factors that influenced the choice of each variant. This work differs from other studies on umlaut in that, on the basis of evidence from these Early New High German texts, it postulates that the development of umlaut was not only a phonological matter, but was in fact significantly influenced by semantic and discourse considerations.
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"Dr. Forester offers a novel approach to one of the classical questions of Germanic linguistics, that of historical German umlaut. While vigorous past research speaks to a phonological and morphological resolution for the actuation of German umlaut, Dr. Forester seeks in addition decidedly pragmatic strategies at the discourse level for the motivation of umlaut data as found in texts preceding the modern period, that is, Early New High German. These texts are particularly revealing since they predate orthographic standardization. Dr. Forester's meticulous research contributes exciting and innovative insights into the venerable umlaut problem as well as a paradigm for the study of historical pragmatics." -- Irmengard Rauch, University of California, Berkeley
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Text: English, German
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