REICHMANN: NEUE HISTORISCHE GRAMMATIKEN - Zum Stand der Grammatikschreibung historischer Sprachstufen des Deutschen und anderer Sprachen

The grammatography of historical stages of German and related languages was for a long time a central preserve of the series 'Collection of Short Grammars of German Dialects'. Progress in historical language description and the grammatical description of modern languages has led to a wave of revisions to existing historical grammars and also to a variety of new conceptions for them. The Heidelberg Conference from 28 January to 3 February 2001 discussed the effects of new linguistic insights on the practice of grammatical description. Major attention was given to such topics as the corpus problem, coverage of varieties, normalization, and the specific requirements of literary studies in connection with historical grammars.