Early New High German

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Early New High German

  1. The form of the German language spoken from 1350 or 1500 to 1650 CE, successor to Middle High German.
    • 2008, Kjartan Ottosson, The diffusion of systemic changes through the inflectional system: Evidence from person-number inflection in the Nordic languages and German, in: Thórhallur Eythórsson (ed.), Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers (John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam/Philadelphia), p. 329ff., here p. 352 *:
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      Middle High German c1050–1350   nëment [...]
      Transition period c1350–1500   nemen / nement [...]
      Early New High German c1500–1650   nemen [...]
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* More properly it's thus:

Table 13. -n generalised to PRES. IND. of the 3rd PL.
PRES. IND. PRES. SUBJ. [...]
Old High German c750–1050 nëment nëmên
Middle High German c1050–1350 nëment / nëmen nëmen
Transition period c1350–1500 nemen / nement nemen
Early New High German c1500–1650 nemen nemen