Middle Low Saxonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Middle Low Saxon

1. A language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low Saxon, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.
   • 1989, P. Sture Ureland, Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change, in: Leiv Egil Breivik, Ernst Håkon Jahr (eds.), Language Change: Contributions to the Study of its Causes (= Trends in Linguistics: Studies かつ Monographs 43), p. 267:

     Furthermore, there was another cultural movement which also changed the map: that of Middle Low Saxon (the language of the Hanseatic League) which brought zik-forms into north-eastern Dutch dialects in Twente and Groningen during the period of the Hanseatic League, the 13th and 15th centuries, after the Middle High German sich had been adapted to sik (cf. [...]).

   • 2018, Elżbieta Adamczyk, Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic, p. 252:

     Their linguistic profile [= the linguistic profile of the later sources of Old Frisian] corresponds rather to that found in contemporaneous languages from the surrounding areas, namely, Middle Dutch, Middle Low Saxon, or Middle English, which attest a more advanced stage of phonological, morphological and, more generally, typological development.