Early New High German Dictionary

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The Early New High German Dictionary (FWB, also FnhdWb) is a historical language stage dictionary that records and describes the vocabulary of Early New High German . It covers the period from the middle of the 14th century to the early baroque in the beginning of the 17th century and thus fills the gap between the Middle High German dictionary by Benecke / Müller / Zarncke or Lexer and the German dictionary by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm . Geographically, it encompasses Central and Upper Germany including the eastern linguistic islands and Ripuarian as well as North German texts, ie High German and Low German mixed texts, as well as High German texts that have been written in the Middle Low German dialect area since the late 15th century .

Sources and material

In addition to literary sources, legal and economic history, chronical and reporting, didactic, theological, edifying texts as well as real-life texts are evaluated. The FWB thus not only covers the general part of the vocabulary of Early New High German, but also to a large extent that of its most important varieties, without, however, becoming a one-page special dictionary e.g. B. for certain dialects, technical languages, sociolects, text types, important individual texts or authors.

Around 900 sources and source collections of around 400,000 pages were evaluated. The material basis is a slip archive with 1.5 million documents.

construction

The dictionary articles have the following structure: The lemma is applied in a normalized form; it corresponds to those forms of evidence that are most likely to be found in socially upscale, mostly printed texts of the later Early New High German of the East and North Upper German-East Central German area. The lemma is followed by a few specially selected word variants, then brief information on the part of speech and morphology as well as (if necessary) also brief notes on etymology. The core of the dictionary article is the explanation of the meaning. This is followed by the specification of symptom values, ie the temporal, spatial and text-type-typical validity of the word or its individual meanings. The systematically introduced information item “onomasiological networking” is new. A separate information position is also set up for the typical syntagms and information on word formation. The article ends with an extensive block of documents.

history

  • Project founded in 1976 by Robert R. Anderson, Ulrich Goebel and Oskar Reichmann .
  • 1979 Oskar Reichmann started the excerpt work, later by employees and assistants with the support of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the state of Baden-Württemberg and the German Research Foundation
  • Publication begins in 1986 after a conception phase
  • 1991 Robert R. Anderson resigned from the editorial board
  • 1998 Completion of the excerpt, thereafter without financial security (exception: volumes 6 and 12, IDS Mannheim)
  • 2004 Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann joins the editorial board
  • 2013 Since the beginning of the year, the FWB has been continued as a research project of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In addition to the continuation of printed deliveries, there are now plans to make the dictionary available online.
  • 2017 Presentation of the online version of the dictionary, which offers a variety of supported search options.

publication

  • Vol. 1: a - Äpfelkern (1986–1989, Oskar Reichmann)
  • Vol. 2: apple king - merciful (1991–1994, Oskar Reichmann)
  • Vol. 3: mercy - obsession (1995–2001, Oskar Reichmann)
  • Vol. 4: pfab (e) - Pythagorean (1997–2000, Joachim Schildt)
  • Vol. 5, 1: d / t (volume 1, 2006, Markus Denkler, Dagmar Hüpper, Oliver Pfefferkorn, Jürgen Macha, Hans-Joachim Solms, volume 2–4, 2014–16, Workplace Early New High German Dictionary of the Academy of Sciences to Göttingen)
  • Vol. 5, 2: e - ezwasser (Lfg. 5-8, 2017-19, Workplace Early New High German Dictionary of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen)
  • Vol. 6: g - glutzen (2003–2010, Joachim Schildt, Oskar Reichmann)
  • Lfg. 7, 1: gnaben - gross talk (2001, Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann)
  • Lfg. 7, 2: Großsprecher - trade (2004, Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann)
  • Lfg. 7, 3: trade - Heimkuh (2007, Oliver Pfefferkorn)
  • Lfg. 7, 4: Heimkunft - witcherei (2009, Oliver Pfefferkorn)
  • Vol. 8: i / j - kuzkappe (1997–2013, Vibeke Winge)
  • Vol. 9, 1: l - maszeug (2000–2013, Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann, Oskar Reichmann)
  • Vol. 9, 2: mat - ozzek (2013-2019, Oskar Reichmann)
  • Lfg. 11, 1: st - stosser (2006, Oskar Reichmann)
  • Expected completion of the dictionary: 2027.

literature

  • RR Anderson / U. Goebel / O. Reichmann: Project of an early New High German concise dictionary, Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik 5 (1977), pp. 71–94
  • RR Anderson / U. Goebel / O. Reichmann: Trial article for the Early New High German Concise Dictionary, in: Studies on New High German Lexicography I. German Linguistics 3-4, 1979. Ed. HE Wiegand, Hildesheim 1981, pp. 11-52
  • RR Anderson / U. Goebel / O. Reichmann: The Early New High German Dictionary II: The structure of the article, in: Contributions to historical lexicography. Lectures and essays on mhd. And frnhd. Lexicography. Ed. V. V. Ágel - R. Paul - L. Szalai, Budapest Contributions to German Studies 15, Budapest 1986, pp. 47–82
  • RR Anderson / U. Goebel / O. Reichmann: On the structure of word articles in the semasiological language stage dictionary using the example of frnhd .arbeit, in: Symposium on Lexicography II. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Lexicography. May 16-17 , 1984 University of Copenhagen ed. By K. Hyldgaard-Jensen - A. Zettersten, Lexicographica, Series Maior 5, Tübingen 1985, pp. 259-285
  • O. Reichmann: Possibilities for the development of historical word meanings, in: In diutscher diute. Festschrift for A. van der Lee on his 60th birthday. Ed. V. MA van den Broek - GJ Jaspers, Amsterdam contributions to older German studies 20, Amsterdam 1983, pp. 111–140
  • O. Reichmann: Historical dictionaries of meanings as research instruments in cultural historiography, in: Brothers Grimm Symposium on Historical Word Research. Contributions to the Marburg conference of June 1985. Ed. R. Hildebrandt - U. Knoop, Historische Wortforschung 1, Berlin - New York 1986, pp. 241-263
  • O. Reichmann: The Early New High German Dictionary I: Subject and Sources, in: Contributions to historical lexicography. Lectures and essays on mhd. And frnhd. Lexicography. Ed. V. V. Ágel - R. Paul - L. Szalai, Budapest Contributions to German Studies 15, Budapest 1986, pp. 21–46
  • O. Reichmann: The Early New High German Dictionary III: The preparation of semasiological language stage dictionaries mainly from an onomasiological aspect, in: Contributions to historical lexicography. Lectures and essays on mhd. And frnhd. Lexicography. Ed. V. V. Ágel - R. Paul - L. Szalai, Budapest Contributions to German Studies 15, Budapest 1986, pp. 83–110
  • O. Reichmann: On the Lexicography of Early New High German and on the “Early New High German Dictionary”, Journal for German Philology 106 (1987), special issue, pp. 178-227
  • O. Reichmann: Historical Lexicography. Ideas, realizations, reflections on examples from German, Dutch and English. Berlin 2012.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Ulrich Goebel, Oskar Reichmann (Ed.): Early New High German Dictionary. Volume 1 ff., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York (1986–) 1989 ff.