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Building a portal of old grammars and orthographical treatises

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(Tilman Olearius), Deutsche Sprachkunst, Halle/S. 1630
(ilustration of the future tense)

So here’s the illustration I eventually managed to get uploaded. It is from a grammar of the 17th century and shows an illustration of the future tense. It belongs to a series of illustratoins in this print, where complex grammatical categories are explained and illustrated in an innovative and diverting way for pupils wanting to learn the German and the Latin language. Almost twenty years ago I pubilshed a commented bibliography of extant old German grammars and orthographical treatises, and I kept collecting and analyzing them since then. In the meantime, we are conceiving a digital portal of Early New High German grammarians that will include, besides the documentation of the sources (with digital entities), a content driven analysis of the texts and authors as well as the underlying semantic networks of grammatical concepts.

Under construction: Portal “Historische Grammatikographie des Deutschen” (Trier University, German Studies, Chair of Historical Linguistics and Trier Center for Digital Humanities)

Read more on my blog on hypotheses.org
and on the DayofDH2013 blog of Verena Teschke “Visions of Grammar”.