Thesis (Doctoral)--Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1932.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Uppsala. / Bibliography: p. [109]-110.

Thesis--Zürich. / Curriculum vitae. "Abkürzungen und benutzte werke": p. [vii]-xii.

Thèse--Upsala. / "Bibliographie": p. 277-294.

Thèse--Paris. / "Liste des ouvrages linguistiques": p. [3]-13.

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This thesis presents, in a critical edition, the poems contained 1n Grey Ms. 7.b.5 of the South African Library in Cape Town. It is the fruit of the first serious investigation to be undertaken of this manuscript and of its contents. Before a reconstruction of the text could.be attempted, problems of authorship, provenance and dating of the manuscript itself as well as of the poems containing verifiable historical allusions required to be resolved. The results of these investigations may be summarized as follows: The Grey manuscript contains an anthology of fourteenth and fifteenth century poems originating, for the most part, in the areas of Emilia, Romagna and the Marches. This collection was compiled by an otherwise unknown courtier and rhymester, Giovanni de' Mantelli di Canobio, nicknamed Tartaglia, between 1473 and 1483. Of the 150 poems it contains, 145 are unique to the Grey Ms.

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This investigation tests the validity of three theories of languages applied to data on lexical gender in the Medieval period of the Romance languages. By analyzing and comparing data from the Miracles of Our Lady, in combination with data from various other researchers, certain patterns of regularity and irregularity can be observed. The primary focus addresses the lexical gender assignment of nouns in the various Romance languages, in particular in the merger of the Latin neuter gender with the masculine and feminine genders. The overall changes and stasis of the history of lexical gender in the Romance languages, can be applied to various theories of language change in order to analyze and understand various phenomena. The phenomena examined in this investigation include the topics of lexical gender change and stasis, 'undecided' and ambiguous lexical gender assignment, and mass-gender elements. In addition, the theories of Lightfoot (1979, 1991), Keller (1994) and Croft (1996, 2000) are used to eludidate contemporary theoretical understanding of this topic. Lightfoot and Keller are chosen as representatives of Formalism and Functionalism, respectively, as they are often used in order to describe and discuss historical language change; the theory of Croft is a new theory which can benefit from further research. It is found that the theory of Croft (2000) best explains the research questions, but more work is recommended in order to fully understand the various phenomena of lexical gender in the history of the Romance languages, and in order to ensure the veracity of the theory, Croft's (2000) Evolutionary Theory must be tested further.