Volume 146, Issue 3

This paper investigates the gender agreement behavior of the cardinal numbers two and three in various German(ic) dialects in attributive function using a corpus of dialect grammars and linguistic atlases. In contrast to previous studies which have investigated certain regions, this paper focuses the entire German-speaking area. The results show diatopic differences in gender agreement depending on the numeral as well as certain tendencies in its development through a comparison of the two datasets. The paper closes with a discussion of the differences between the standard language and the dialects, and proposes that the loss of gender agreement was set in motion by dialect sound mergers.

The Metz manuscript 327, written in the beginning of the 14th century, transmits three stanzas in two of Frauenlob’s Töne that were added ca. fifty years later. This article gives a transcription in slightly normalised form as well as a philological and literary commentary. In addition, the musical notation in neumes is edited in a synopsis with the other early versions of the melody. The material is discussed regarding the tradition of stanzas composed by Frauenlob or in his Töne , and with respect to melodies of Sangspruch which are transmitted in neumes.

The article focusses on one stanza from Frauenlob’s oeuvre in the ›Weimarer Liederhandschrift‹ which introduces the key word gesperre for describing the semantic-logical phenomenon of relational terms. Based on a new edition of GA X,4 (as well as of the thematically connected GA V,69) and structured as an extended commentary on these fifteen lines in ›Vergessener Ton‹, the study presents some new aspects of Frauenlob’s reflection on language, explores a possible link between Frauenlob and Rudolf von Ems and raises the general question about the difference between saelde and saelikeit .