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Taal en Tongval - Volume 66, Issue 1, 2014
Volume 66, Issue 1, 2014
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oa Dialect contact and the speed of Jespersen’s cycle in Middle Low German
More LessAbstract The present paper adds empirical evidence to the observation that dialect contact can lead to language change, and in particular, structural simplification. Empirically, the paper maps out the differences in the speed of the transition from stage II to stage III in different Middle Low German scribal dialects (Schreibsprachen) and proposes an account for these differences.
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oa Wandel und Variation in der Morphosyntax der schweizerdeutschen Dialekte
More LessAbstract Syntactic Variation and change in Swiss German dialects The article deals with the areal distribution of morphosyntactic variants in Swiss German dialects. The Zurich project “Syntaktischer Atlas der deutschen Schweiz” (SADS) has provided a lot of evidence for the existence of syntactic isoglosses within the German-speaking regions of Switzerland. In the following, we will discuss several types of variant distributi Read More
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oa Conservative and innovative dialect areas
More LessAbstract The present paper focuses on conservative and innovative (transitional) dialect areas and the questions of 1) how such areas can be methodologically visualized and 2) how the outcomes can be interpreted. In the first part of this paper a geostatistical method of representing phonological features in space will be introduced: interpolation. This method is not entirely new to dialectology; it has been quite neglect Read More
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oa Taaldiversiteit in Nederland
Authors: Hans Schmeets & Leonie Cornips
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