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Areal variation in Middle High German


 Using the Corpus der altdeutschen Originalurkunden ‘Corpus of Old German Original Charters’
 (Wilhelm et al. 1932–2004), we will show that charters offer valuable information on dialectological differences during the Middle
 High German period. This text genre is unsurpassed in terms of its geographical resolution even though it faces certain challenges
 due to its partially formulaic style. With two well-known phenomena, i.e. inflected forms of the infinitive (‘gerunds’) and
 so-called ‘contracted’ verbs like haben/hân ‘have’, we will show how these materials can be analysed and put into
 perspective with other sources like the new Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik by Klein, Solms & Wegera (2018).