Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas
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Susanne Oberholzer
Abstract
This chapter presents the research project VerbaAlpina funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project investigates the specific Alpine lexis in the multilingual Alpine region where different dialects and languages from the Germanic, Romance and Slavic language families are spoken. This chapter focuses on the methodology used to transfer analogue data from traditional linguistic atlases and dictionaries into a digital format. The method used enables, for the first time, the representation and comparison of traditional geolinguistic data within a digital and multilingual research environment open to the public realm.
Abstract
This chapter presents the research project VerbaAlpina funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project investigates the specific Alpine lexis in the multilingual Alpine region where different dialects and languages from the Germanic, Romance and Slavic language families are spoken. This chapter focuses on the methodology used to transfer analogue data from traditional linguistic atlases and dictionaries into a digital format. The method used enables, for the first time, the representation and comparison of traditional geolinguistic data within a digital and multilingual research environment open to the public realm.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
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Plenaries
- Analytic and synthetic 3
- A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables 23
- Dynamics, variation and the brain 47
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Individual chapters
- Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician 71
- Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community 85
- The unruly dialect variant [a] 99
- Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek 113
- Between local and standard varieties 125
- Syntactic doubling and variation 141
- Variation in style 157
- A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English 173
- Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century 185
- Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas 199
- Variation in Croatian 215
- Index 233
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
-
Plenaries
- Analytic and synthetic 3
- A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables 23
- Dynamics, variation and the brain 47
-
Individual chapters
- Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician 71
- Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community 85
- The unruly dialect variant [a] 99
- Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek 113
- Between local and standard varieties 125
- Syntactic doubling and variation 141
- Variation in style 157
- A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English 173
- Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century 185
- Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas 199
- Variation in Croatian 215
- Index 233
