Romanisch-germanischer Sprachkontakt im späten Karolingerreich: Die Pariser Gespräche

Schäfer-Prieß, Barbara (2022): Romanisch-germanischer Sprachkontakt im späten Karolingerreich: Die Pariser Gespräche. In: Schöntag, Roger und Schäfer-Prieß, Barbara (eds.) : Romanische Sprachgeschichte und Sprachkontakt : Münchner Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: Peter Lang. pp. 91-119

Abstract

The article deals with the language situation in the Carolingian Empire before and after the Carolingian Renaissance, the contact between Germanic and Latin/Romance varieties as well as the concept of the Charlemagne Sprachbund. Furthermore, the Pariser Gespräche (Paris Conversations), a text written in Old High German and Latin in Northern France in the 9th century, which has received little attention in Romance studies so far, will be examined. This allows for conclusions to be drawn about Old French, which first appeared in writing at that time. The text is analysed with regard to possible contact phenomena between Old High German, Latin and Romance in the area of morphosyntax (preposition of adjectives, negation, pronominal completion of 'no' and pseudo-reflexive constructions), whereby a reference is made to the Charlemagne Sprachbund postulated in recent times. It is assumed that under the very specific linguistic and cultural conditions that had arisen in the Carolingian Empire, common developments in Germanic and Romance varieties took place. The influence was apparently not unidirectional, and reformed Latin, the common written Latin for Romanophones and Germanophones probably had a considerable impact. It is quite plausible to suggest that the Frankish Empire under Charlemagne presented the right conditions for the emergence and spread of linguistic innovations that still manifest themselves in the Carolingian Language Sprachbund today.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Keywords: Language contact ; Charlemagne Sprachbund ; "Pariser Gespräche" ; Latin ; Old High German ; Old French ; Carolingian Empire
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 2 > Romance Philology
• Subjects: 400 Language > 430 German and related languages; 400 Language > 440 French and related languages; 400 Language > 470 Latin and Italic languages
• ISBN: 978-3-631-87297-0
• Place of Publication: Berlin
• Language: German