Skripta und Variation

Against the background of current differences of opinion in the research on scripta, the present study aims to integrate the language-variety perspective into their empirical study. The 'historical language variety' approach developed specially for this study is demonstrated with reference to Old French negation and noun inflection in 179 original Luxembourgeois documents. The analyses show that the linguistic varieties manifesting themselves in the texts correlate not only with geographic but also with socio-cultural factors.