Distributions spatiales et temporelles, constellations des manuscrits/Spatial and Temporal Distributions, Manuscript Constellations: Etudes de variation linguistiques offertes à Anthonij Dees à l'occasion de son 60ème anniversaire / Studies in language variation offered to Anthoni

Throughout the years the extent of the contributions by A. Dees to the renewal of philology, has become progressively more evident. In his Etudes sur l'evolution des demonstratifs en ancien et en moyen français (1971) Dees has developed a framework within which language evolution in the past can be reconstructed in detail. A comparison of the data of the two Atlases compiled by Dees with the manuals of Old French shows the extraordinary richness of these Atlases with respect to both the visual representation and the documentation not used previously. The first section of this volume is devoted to language variation and distribution. The renewal of the stemmatology started by Dees goes back to the early 1970s. Dees proves that there is a mathematical solution to the problem of reconstructing a genealogical tree for a text. The application of this theory to manuscripts in various languages forms the second theme of this volume.

Table of Contents:
1. Preface; 2. Tabula gratulatoria; 3. Auteurs/Authors; 4. Liste des publications de Anthonij Dees; 5. I. Distributions spatiales et temporelles / Spatial and temporal distributions; 6. Temps apparent et temps reel (by Al, Bernard); 7. The numerical classification of languages, and dialect maps for the past (by Benskin, Michael); 8. Prose rimee et ordre des mots dans un fragment des Quatre Livres des Rois (by Dardel, Robert de); 9. Computer-assisted study of syntactical change, the shift in the use of the participle in biblical and post-biblical Hebrew texts (by Dyk, Janet); 10. Analyse diatopique, diachronique et diatextuelle d'un trait scripturaire normand (*ALIRE + S latin> aillours etc.) (by Goebl, Hans); 11. Les modeles spatiaux et temporels dans la dialectologie: Comment separer les tendances regionales et generales des fluctuations systematiques au niveau local (by Goeman, Ton); 12. Correlations et groupements dans l'Atlas des formes et des constructions des chartes francaises du 13e siecle (by Huber, Onno); 13. L'Anglo-normand du 13e siecle (by Jong, Thera de); 14. Le Dit du Cerf amoureux et le probleme de son attribution (by Khoe, Mei Hwa); 15. Stylistic boundaries and linguistic boundaries in Breughel and Vondel (by Leuvensteijn, Arjan van); 16. Variation in lexical frequency (by Martin, Willy); 17. Les normes subjectives du francais et les francais regionaux: La longueur vocalique depuis le 16e siecle (by Morin, Yves-Charles); 18. Les variations des graphies o/ou et en/an en ancien francais (by Reenen, Pieter van); 19. Quelques mots regionaux dans le poeme de la Vie de saint Silvestre et de l'Invention de la sainte Croix (by Roques, Gilles); 20. Paralleles phonetiques des deux cotes de la frontiere linguistique franco- neerlandaise: La diphtongaison de [e] entrave (by Hoecke, Willy van); 21. II. Constellations des manuscrits: La theorie des niveaux discrets / Manuscript constellations: The discrete level theory; 22. The filiation of manuscripts of Der Naturen Bloeme (by Hogenhout-Mulder, M.); 23. "als in den olden wylkoren gescreuen staet", La filiation des textes juridiques en vieux frison traduits en bas saxon de Groningue (by Meijering, G.); 24. On the tradition of the fourth book of Poggio Bracciolini De varietate fortunae (by Merisalo, Outi); 25. La constellation de Narcisse (by Schosler, Lene); 26. Ordinateur et stemmatologie: Une constellation contaminee dans une tradition grecque (by Uthemann, Karl-Heinz)