Dana Janetta Dogaru:
Zur SprachqualitŠt der frŸhneuhochdeutschen Predigten des siebenbŸrgisch-sŠchsischen
Pfarrers Damasus DŸrr
The Transylvanian German
pastor Damasus DŸrr (ca. 1535–1585) produced a collection of sermons of
no less than 1039 pages and in doing so has left us a text corpus which provides
valuable data about the development of the New High German written standard in Transylvania
in the sixteenth century. Subject to influences from the Transylvanian ÒSaxonÓ dialect
on the one hand and to those of the South German and East Central German
written varieties on the other, the language of DŸrrÕs oeuvre is characterized
by East Central German features and represents an earlier phase in the development
of a unified standard German comparable with similar stages in the evolution of
New High German elsewhere in the central and southern regions of the German
linguistic area. Transylvania thus belongs to those regions in which the development
of the modern High German standard written language was relatively early.
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