Middle High German

Middle High German is a historical stage of development during the High Middle Ages (ca. 1100-1400) of those central and southern dialects of German that participated in the Second or High German Consonant Shift and which later came to form the basis of Modern Standard German. The period is demarcated at the beginning by the gradual loss of full final vowels in morphological endings in its ancestor language Old High German and at the end by its further gradual development into early Modern High German.

References

Resources

• Bibliotheca Augustana: Online digital texts in Middle High German

Bibliography

• John A. Asher. 1967. A Short Descriptive Grammar of Middle High German with Texts and Vocabulary. Wellington: Oxford University Press
• Otto Mausser. 1932. Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik auf vergleichende Grundlage. 2 vols. München: Max Hueber.
• Hermann Paul. 1998. Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik. 24th ed. by Peter Wiehl and Siegfried Grosse. Sammlung kurzer Grammatiken Germanischer Dialekte A. 2. Tübingen: Niemeyer. ISBN 3484102330 / ISBN 3484102322
• Penzl, Herbert. 1989. Mittelhochdeutsch: Eine Einführung in die Dialekte. Berlin/New York: P. Lang. ISBN 3261038535 / ISBN 9783261038531
• Kurt Otto Seidel and Renate Schophaus. 1979. Einführung in das Mittelhochdeutsche. Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion. ISBN 79970695X / ISBN 9783799706957
• Maurice O'C. Walshe and Joseph Wright. 1974. A Middle High German reader: with grammar, notes, and glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198720785 / ISBN 9780198720782 / ISBN 0198720823 / ISBN 9780198720829