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Kulina, I. "EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND ITS DIALECTS." Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology, no. 2(49) (January 16, 2023): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4604.2022.2(49).268197.

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The article is devoted to the evolutionary development of the German language and its dialects (Bavarian and Swabian — Alemannic). The relevance of the topic is determined by the fact that, despite the dominance of the Standardsprache on the territory of modern Germany, local dialects are also sufficiently widespread in it, which have recently gained more and more prestige, especially among young people. The purpose of this study is to analyze the linguistic features of southern German dialects (Bavarian and Swabian — Alemannic) and to identify their genetic links with the modern German langua

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Baechler, Raffaela. "Humanness in the 3rd Person Singular Personal Pronoun in Alemannic Dialects." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 30, no. 4 (2018): 307–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542717000150.

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This paper surveys the emergence of the categoryhumannessin the 3rd person singular personal pronoun in Alemannic (southwest German) dialects. The first part shows that some Alemannic dialects have developed a human/nonhuman distinction in the 3rd person singular neuter personal pronoun: a marked form encoding the human direct object has emerged. The emergence of this form can be explained by the differential object marking hypothesis. The second part reports on a pilot study of the 3rd person singular personal pronoun in Sense Alemannic on the basis of new data. In this dialect, humanness is

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Auer, Peter. "Dialect divergence at the state border: the case of Alsatian and German Alemannic." Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication 15 (October 18, 2023): 64–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.54337/ojs.globe.v15i.8038.

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This paper summarizes recent research on the German/French border in the Upper Rhine Region, where the state border cuts across a traditional Alemannic dialect area. It is argued that the present-day divergence of the dialects is due to different repertoire types and different language ideologies in France and Germany, which counteract the positive effects of border permeability. Despite this general tendency for the dialects to diverge at the state border, it is also shown that traditional regional affiliations with and orientations to Alsace continue to impact the speed of dialect levelling

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Berthele, Raphael. "Alemannisch und der Deutschunterricht." Linguistik Online 98, no. 5 (2019): 387–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.98.5945.

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In this contribution, I describe the evolution of the role that Alemannic dialects and Standard High German play in the Swiss German educational context. Drawing on a content analysis of a collection of school-related documents from 1950 to 2014, I describe the change in the roles attributed to dialects and the standard language, respectively. The task of German-language education shifts from the two-fold goal of teaching standard-language literacy and cultivating the “pure” dialect in the 1950s to a clear prioritization of standard language skills both in orality and in literacy towards the e

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Caro Reina, Javier. "Wortsprachliche Merkmale im Alemannischen." Linguistik Online 98, no. 5 (2019): 235–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.98.5939.

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This paper examines the strategies for profiling the phonological word in Alemannic, applying the typology of syllable and word languages. The diagnostic criteria selected for assessing the relevance of the phonological word include syllable structure, phonotactic restrictions, and word-profiling processes. Following on from previous synchronic and diachronic analyses (Nübling/Schrambke 2004; Szczepaniak 2007), I will provide a detailed account of the phonological word in Old Alemannic and in modern Alemannic dialects, which include Upper-Rhine Alemannic, Swabian, and South Alemannic. It will

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Zihlmann, Urban. "Investigating speaker individuality in the Swiss Standard German of four Alemannic dialect regions: Consonant quantity, vowel quality, and temporal variables." Loquens 7, no. 1 (2021): e070. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2020.070.

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While German-speaking Switzerland manifests a considerable amount of dialectal diversity, until the present day the phonetic interrelation of Alemannic (ALM) dialects and spoken Swiss Standard German (SSG) has not been studied with an acoustic phonetic approach on the speaker level. In this study, out of a pool of 32 speakers (controlled for sex, age, and education level) from 4 dialectologically distinct ALM areas, 16 speakers with 2 dialects were analysed regarding SSG consonant duration (in words whose ALM equivalents may or may not have a geminate), 8 speakers from the city of Bern (

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Glaser, Elvira, and Sandro Bachmann. "Canonical and non-canonical (co)predicate agreement in Highest Alemannic dialects." Word Structure 15, no. 3 (2022): 329–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/word.2022.0213.

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This paper deals with the distribution of agreement patterns for target adjectives or past participles in Swiss German dialects focussing on non-attributive domains. While agreement outside the nominal phrase has been lost in the development towards Standard German and in most dialects, in some Swiss German dialects certain syntactic domains still show formal agreement. Against this backdrop, two topics will be addressed in this paper. It gives an overview of the extent, function and distribution of formal agreement within the clausal domain on the basis of survey data, as far as possible. Ano

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Morciniec, Norbert. "Althochdeutsche Dialekte – Neuhochdeutsche Dialekte. Terminologische Probleme bei Beschreibungen älterer Sprachzustände." Studia Germanica Posnaniensia, no. 38 (June 25, 2018): 123–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/sgp.2017.38.10.

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In the history of the German language of the period between 750–1050, the term “Old High German dialects” is used to characterize the Franconian, Bavarian and Alemannic languages, in which the records from this period are written. The author of the article analyses the meaning of the term in question and explains why the languages of those records have been called “dialects” (despite the fact that the common language, whose dialects they might have been, did not exist at that time yet), and on what grounds they have been called “German” dialects (though the German nationality did not exist at

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Derungs, Curdin, Christian Sieber, Elvira Glaser, and Robert Weibel. "Dialect borders—political regions are better predictors than economy or religion." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 35, no. 2 (2019): 276–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz037.

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AbstractThe impact of geography on language and dialect variation has been subject to a vast number of studies in linguistics, as well as the broader humanities. Most quantitative research concerning dialectology has focused on the relationship between spatial distance and change of dialects. Hypotheses regarding the impact of other geographic, cultural, and social factors have been put forth for many years but have rarely been examined with quantitative methods. In this article, we compare dialect variation in Swiss German morphosyntax with three types of social and cultural variation, namely

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Ponomareva, Anastasiya Alexeevna. "Functions of dialectal insertions in headlines and headliners (based on the example of the regional press of southern Germany)." Philology. Theory & Practice 18, no. 6 (2025): 2270–75. https://doi.org/10.30853/phil20250318.

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The aim of the study is to identify the dialectal means through which the attractive and other secondary functions are realized in headlines and headliners from articles of regional newspapers. The scientific novelty is determined by the combination of linguopragmatic and linguocultural approaches to defining the functions of dialectal insertions in the print media of southern Germany. Based on the analysis of pragmatically significant elements of articles (more than 50 headlines and headliners) from regional and municipal newspapers as well as other information portals published between 2014

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Zürrer, Peter. "Genus-Zuweisung bei der Pronominalisierung von Personen in den Südwalser Dialekten." Linguistik Online 107, no. 2 (2021): 223–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.107.7694.

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The Alemannic dialects in linguistic islands in Northern Italy have been undergoing strong changes since the second half of the 20th century. One of these changes concerns the assignment of gender with persons. Generalized neuter abolishes the coupling of gender with male/female and transfers both female and male persons into neuter. This in turn has its effect on verbal inflection. The post-verbal subject clitics mutate in the 3rd person singular to verb endings void of male/female connotations. This change, as it is now spreading, is not in itself a recent phenomenon. In early written dialec

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Vergeiner, Philip C., and Lars Bülow. "Der Konjunktiv II in den ruralen Basisdialekten Österreichs." Linguistik Online 114, no. 2 (2022): 3–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.114.8401.

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Until today, variation and change in the use of subjunctive II variants in the dialects of Austria have been poorly studied. Largely neglected by traditional dialectology, even more recent studies neither consider all dialect regions of Austria, nor do they go into detail about intra-linguistic factors. Furthermore, an integration into morpho-syntactic theories of language change is missing. This paper addresses the above-mentioned desiderata. Using an apparent-time design, it intends to uncover linguistic, geographical, and sociolinguistic factors of variation and change in the use of s

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Klein, Andreas, and Kristin Kopf. "Der s-Plural im Alemannischen." Linguistik Online 98, no. 5 (2019): 31–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.98.5928.

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It is commonly agreed that the plural -s has become a part of Standard German inflection, yet in dialects such as Alemannic it is often seen as an intruder. We challenge this view based on data from a written survey amongst speakers of Swiss German dialects. Our analysis of pluralised loanwords (e. g. Mango) and abbreviations (e. g. WG ‘flat share’) shows a strong effect of both speakers’ age and grammatical gender that points towards a progressive integration of the plural -s into the dialectal system. While masculine and neuter nouns can express number syntagmatically (using articles t

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Moser, Ann-Marie. "Form und Funktion der doppelten Negation in deutschen Dialekten, mit einem Schwerpunkt im Oberdeutschen." Linguistik Online 98, no. 5 (2019): 179–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.98.5935.

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The article gives an overview of the form and function of negative concord in German dialects (Alemannic, Bavarian, Upper Franconian varieties, West Central German, East Central German, West Low German, East Low German, Silesian, East Pomeranian, Low Prussian), with a focus on Upper German. The study is based on spontaneous speech data from the 1950s until the 1980s and shows that negative doubling and negative spread (in German: ‘doppelte Negation mit Satznegation’ and ‘doppelte Negation ohne Satznegation’) are two different negation types, thus there is no correlation between them as general

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Erhart, Pascale. "Von Staatsgrenze zu Dialektgrenze." Linguistik Online 98, no. 5 (2019): 307–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.98.5942.

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The ANR/DFG cooperation project called “FLARS – Effects of the national border on the linguistic situation in the Upper Rhine area”, between the University of Freiburg and the University of Strasbourg, examined the emergence and the nature of a linguistic border between France and Germany in the Alemannic-speaking regions Alsace and Baden, and its interdependence with the political border. The project data were collected through interviews conducted in 40 localities alongside the political border. The questions focused on what informants think and say about languages and about their use of the

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Schmid, Stephan, Adrian Leemann, Dieter Studer-Joho, and Marie-José Kolly. "Areale Variation von /r/-Realisierungen in schweizerdeutschen Dialekten." Linguistik Online 98, no. 5 (2019): 11–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.98.5923.

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The present study deals with the areal variation of /r/-realisations in the Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland. In particular, we provide a quantitative survey of recordings collected through crowdsourcing, i. e. by means of the smartphone application Dialäkt Äpp (Leemann/Kolly 2013). Each of the 2851 recordings of the word trinke (‘to drink’) was auditorily coded by at least two of the four authors. The resulting maps show a neat areal distribution of the realisations of /r/, with alveolar variants in most of the central Midlands and in the Alpine regions. Uvular variants, on the other

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Schäfer, Lea. "Diachrone Zugänge zur Stereotypenbildung am Beispiel alemannischer Dialekte der Schweiz." Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 90, no. 3 (2023): 346–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.25162/zdl-2023-0011.

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Nahon, Peter. "The French linguistic varieties of Gypsies and Travellers: an original diastratic variation perspective." Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 140, no. 1 (2024): 30–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2024-0002.

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Abstract For centuries, France and the French-speaking areas of Belgium and Switzerland have been home to a large minority of Gypsies and Travellers, comprising about 300,000 individuals who all speak a form of French as their native language and form a close-knit sociolinguistic community. Their French sociolect, hitherto never described by linguists, differs from other varieties of French through a wide array of phenomena at all levels of language structure: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexical semantics and morphology. Diachronic and contrastive analysis shows that these fe

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Krompák, Edina. "Diglossia and Local Identity: Swiss German in the Linguistic Landscape of Kleinbasel (Asian Perspectives)." Journal on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 1, no. 4 (2019): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/jala.v1-i4-a1.

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The city of Basel is situated in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, in the geographic triangle of three countries: France, Germany and Switzerland. Everyday urban life is characterised by the presence of Standard German and Swiss German as well as diverse migrant languages. Swiss German is ‘an umbrella term for several Alemannic dialects’ (Stepkowska 2012, 202) which differ from Standard German in terms of phonetics, semantics, lexis, and grammar and has no standard written form. Swiss German is predominantly used in oral forms, and Standard German in written communication. Furthermore,

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Hanulíková, Adriana. "Bewertung und Grammatikalität regionaler Syntax." Linguistik Online 98, no. 5 (2019): 197–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.98.5936.

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This paper addresses how morphosyntactic variation stemming from the Alemannic regional variety is perceived, evaluated, and judged in written and spoken language. Based on data from a questionnaire and speeded grammaticality judgments, this study examines which grammatical variants are salient to the listener as a function of speaker accent (regional vs. standard) and listener background (students from different school types and cities). The results show that, in addition to the regional morphosyntax, regional accent co-determines grammaticality judgements, in particular for naive listeners.

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Fleischer, Jürg, and Stephan Schmid. "Zurich German." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 36, no. 2 (2006): 243–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100306002441.

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Zurich German belongs to the High Alemannic subgroup of Alemannic, a dialect group forming part of Upper German (cf. Wiesinger 1983: 835). It is the dialect spoken in the city and in most parts of the canton of Zurich. According to recent census data, the canton of Zurich (whose area roughly coincides with the areal extension of Zurich German) has somewhat more than 1.2 million inhabitants, but since immigration both from other German-speaking areas and from more remote linguistic backgrounds plays an important role for the largest city and the largest canton of Switzerland, the number of spea

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Pfeiffer, Martin, Tobias Streck, and Andrea Streckenbach. "Einleitung – Alemannische Dialektologie – Forschungsstand und Perspektiven." Linguistik Online 98, no. 5 (2019): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.98.5922.

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This special issue of Linguistik online presents contributions to the 19th Arbeitstagung zur alemannischen Dialektologie (Conference on Alemannic dialectology). This conference was not restricted to a single research theme, but aimed to reflect the whole range of topically and methodologically diverse research currently being carried out in the field of Alemannic dialectology. This introduction briefly summarizes each of the 19 contributions to the special issue, organized according to the sections “variation and change”, “dialect, space, and identity”, and “project reports”.

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Auer, Peter, Martin Pfeiffer, Göz Kaufmann, and Julia Breuninger. "Dialektabbau im grenznahen Alemannischen in Deutschland: die Rolle des elsässischen Hinterlands." Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 90, no. 3 (2023): 274–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.25162/zdl-2023-0009.

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Brandner, Ellen. "Bare Infinitives in Alemannic and the Categorial Status of Infinitival Complements." Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006 6 (December 31, 2006): 203–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/livy.6.09bra.

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This article deals mainly with the distribution and function of the infinitival marker in Standard German and in Alemannic, a dialect spoken in Southern Germany.* At first sight both form and distribution differ in these two variants to a great extent. The most important difference is that Alemannic generally lacks the infinitival marker zu (to in English, te in Dutch) in the environments where it occurs in SG. Instead, bare infinitives are used to a much greater extent than in SG. A detailed comparison shows how these Alemannic data can shed some new light on SG infinitival constructions — wh

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Pfeiffer, Martin. "Grenzüberschreitende Identitäten im badischen Oberrheingebiet: Unterschiede in der Konstruktion sprachlicher und regionaler Verbundenheit mit dem Elsass." Linguistik Online 98, no. 5 (2019): 329–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.98.5943.

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Based on a qualitative analysis of 127 sociolinguistic interviews with speakers of Alemannic from 22 villages and towns along the Franco-German border at the Upper Rhine in Baden (Germany), this contribution investigates the construction of trans-border identities. The paper explores how Badeners perceive the relationship with Alsace (France) with regard to three thematic fields: 1) regional ties with Alsace, 2) language choice in communication across the border, and 3) comprehension of the Alsatian dialect. Two factors are shown to play a major role for the construction of trans-border

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Niehaus, Konstantin. "Augschburgerisch auf Facebook: Enregisterment und Mediatisierung eines urbanen Dialekts." Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik 73, no. 1 (2020): 239–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2020-2037.

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AbstractThis article examines language and local identity in an urban space analysing the enregisterment of a local variety at one of the most relevant dialect borders in Germany: the Bavarian city of Augsburg which is in close proximity to both Upper Bavaria and Bavaria’s capital Munich. The local dialect of Augsburg mixes Swabian-Alemannic and Bavarian features and it is because of this mix that Swabians, the group to which the Augsburgians are generally deemed to belong to, are often regarded not to be ‘proper’ Bavarian speakers. Augschburgerisch has become a stylized register with authenti

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Lippi-Green, Rosina. "The development of the directional adverb hin in an Alemannic dialect: From sociolinguistic marker to stereotype." American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 3, no. 1 (1991): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1040820700000573.

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ABSTRACTIn a small community of approximately 760 High Alemannic speakers, four reflexes of the MHG directional particle anhin co-occur: (aje), (ae), (ahe) and (ane) in a case of active variation leading to change. The distribution patterns indicate that the most active variants, (aje) and (ane), are evaluated differently by different segments of the community. In the adult population we find speakers for whom the variation is still active and subconscious as well as those for whom the change is complete or otherwise inactive. In contrast, the children and adolescents use the conservative vari

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Pickl, Simon. "Neues zur Entwicklung der Negation im Mittelhochdeutschen." Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 139, no. 1 (2017): 1–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bgsl-2017-0001.

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AbstractThis paper investigates the development of sentential negation in Middle High German using sermons from the Upper German dialect area. To this end, a heterogeneous yet fine-grained corpus of Alemannic and Bavarian sermons is analysed with respect to diachronic development, geographical distribution and language-internal factors. What becomes clear is that Jespersen’s Cycle, a cross-linguistic model of the development of negation that can be seen as part of the received history of German negation, fails to account for the mechanisms in the development of sentential negation in German. T

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Saracco, Caterina. "Le varietà walser dell’Italia settentrionale: Gressoney e il titsch." Linguistik Online 130, no. 6 (2024): 235–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.129.11157.

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This contribution aims at illustrating the history of the Walser community of Gressoney (Aosta, Italy), where a language belonging to the dialectal space of the Highest Alemannic is still spoken today. The Titsch language, unfortunately, is not only undergoing the influence of the surrounding Romance languages, but its speakers are also disappearing, and a generational change is currently lacking. Secondly, a first scientific description of the phonetic and phonological system of this variety is provided, as well as some peculiar morphosyntactic and lexical characteristics. Finally, some of th

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Gotowko, Piotr. "Johann Marschalk von Frohburg - the first superior dignitary from modern-day Switzerland in the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order and the brethen from Alsace-Burgundy." Masuro-⁠Warmian Bulletin 314, no. 4 (2022): 549–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.51974/kmw-145681.

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Johann Marschalk von Frohburg (1320/1330-1391) came from Liestal in the far south-western fringes of the Reich, from an insignificant family who was looking after the stable of the Counts of Frohburg. The Teutonic Knights from his region hadn't played any role in Prussia so far. Very few written sources, the supposed dates of birth and the later carriercourses suggest that brother Johann gathered around him brethren of similar Alemannic dialect, in particular Werner von Tettingen and Konrad and Rudolf von Kyburg. At the same time, he began to forge an alliance with another crew from the south-

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Dammel, Antje. "Evaluative Wortbildung und Personenreferenz." Linguistik Online 107, no. 2 (2021): 145–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.107.7691.

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The word formation pattern [ __-i]N mask. in Alemannic mainly derives masculine agent nouns from verbs resulting in output semantics of ‘someone who notoriously acts in the manner of base verb’. I analyse the pattern as an instance of evaluative morphology embedded in a more general output oriented schema and propose a scenario how the pattern may have developed from an OHG hypochoristic pattern primarily used in names. In a qualitative and quantitative analysis of two dialect dictionaries on Zürich German and Bernese German I look into the possible lexical fillings of the pattern and derive a

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Dröge, Alexander, Elisabeth Rabs, Jürg Fleischer, et al. "Case Syncretism, Animacy, and Word Order in Continental West Germanic: Neurolinguistic Evidence from a Comparative Study on Standard German, Zurich German, and Fering (North Frisian)." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 32, no. 3 (2020): 217–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542719000199.

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To understand a sentence, it is crucial to understand who is doing what. The interplay of morphological case marking, argument serialization, and animacy provides linguistic cues for the processing system to rapidly identify the thematic roles of the arguments. The present event-related brain potential (ERP) study investigates on-line brain responses during argument identification in Zurich German, a High Alemannic dialect, and in Fering, a North Frisian variety, which both exhibit reduced case systems as compared to Standard German. Like Standard German, Zurich German and Fering are Continent

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Baechler, Raffaela. "Diachronic complexification and isolation." Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting 1, no. 1 (2014): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/yplm-2015-0001.

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Abstract One may hear that over time languages tend to simplify their grammar and notably their morphological system. This intuition, probably based on linguists’ knowledge of the rich inflectional systems of older Indo-European languages, has been challenged, particularly by sociolinguistic typologists (e.g. Trudgill 2011; Braunmuller 1984, 2003; Nichols 1992). They hypothesise that languages spoken by small and isolated communities with a dense network may complexify their grammar (Trudgill 2011: 146-147). The present article investigates the nominal inflection systems of 14 varieties of Ger

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Artemova, Vera, and Mariya Dmitrieva. "Semantic Groups of Swiss German Lexemes and Peculiarities of Their Word Formation." Izvestia of Smolensk State University, no. 2(50) (July 2, 2020): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2020-50-2-149-158.

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The main objective of this paper is to describe semantic diversity of nationally labeled lexemes and peculiarities of their word formation mechanisms on the example of the Swiss German language. One of the central concepts is the concept of «the national variant of the language». The article briefly describes the most important stages of literary and linguistic works on the stage of fixing and studying the basic dialect of Switzerland – Alemannic. The Dictionary of Variability of the German Language is accepted as the main source of the research material. The methodological basis c

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Salazar Estrada, Yovany, and Rita Jáimez Esteves. "La identidad lingüística representada en testimonios de emigrantes ecuatorianos." Kipus: Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales, no. 57 (January 10, 2025): 137–62. https://doi.org/10.32719/13900102.2025.57.8.

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Los autores se proponen interpretar y evidenciar la identidad lingüística de los emigrantes ecuatorianos que se han dirigido a países de mayor desarrollo, en especial Estados Unidos, Canadá, España, Alemania y Gran Bretaña. Para ello, se fundamenta en obras testimoniales escritas por los protagonistas, cuyas publicaciones oscilan entre 1996 y 2015. Con la orientación de las teorías devenidas de las ciencias sociales y humanas, particularmente de la lingüística, luego de la aplicación de la metodología y técnicas propias de la investigación bibliográfico-documental, se concluye que existe una s

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Noelliste, Erin, and Tyler Kniess. "Unmarkedness of the coronal nasal in Alemannic." Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 27, no. 1 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10828-024-09153-x.

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AbstractIn Alemannic dialects of German, [n] is particularly vulnerable to assimilation, deletion, and epenthesis. Although these changes are not necessarily uniform across all Alemannic varieties, the Alemannic dialect areas all exhibit some, if not all, of these processes. In this article, we present data from a diverse array of Alemannic dialects and show that [n] behaves similarly throughout Alemannic, assimilating to the place of following stops, deleting word-finally, and repairing hiatus through epenthesis. We contend that coronal [n] is interacting with so many processes because it is

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Zihlmann, Urban B. "Vowel quality in four Alemannic dialects and its influence on the respective varieties of Swiss Standard German." Journal of the International Phonetic Association, February 18, 2021, 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100320000377.

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Despite being one of the official languages in Switzerland, the phonetic properties of Swiss Standard German (SSG) have been studied insufficiently. Regarding Alemannic (ALM) dialects, most of the available phonetic studies have dealt with consonants rather than vowels. To counteract this general lack of research, this study investigates the long-vowel inventories of four ALM dialects as well as their respective SSG varieties regarding vowel quality. The aim of the study is twofold: on the one hand, it provides the first comparative acoustic analysis of ALM and SSG vowels; on the other hand, i

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Zebe, Franka. "Vowel and consonant quantity in two Swiss German dialects and their corresponding varieties of Standard German: effects of region, age, and tempo." Phonetica, July 7, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/phon-2022-0017.

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Abstract The diglossic situation in German-speaking Switzerland entails that both an Alemannic dialect and a Swiss standard variety of German are spoken. One phonological property of both Alemannic and Swiss Standard German (SSG) is contrastive quantity not only in vowels but also in consonants, namely lenis and fortis. This study aims to compare vowel and plosive closure durations as well as articulation rate (AR) between Alemannic and SSG in the varieties spoken in a rural area of the canton of Lucerne (LU) and an urban area of the canton of Zurich (ZH). In addition to the segment durations,

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Vergeiner, Philip C., and Konstantin Niehaus. "Article use in Upper German – a ‘radical’ stage of grammaticalization?" Linguistic Variation, December 9, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lv.21014.ver.

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Abstract Despite an increasing interest in German dialect syntax, the study of article use in Upper German (Alemannic and Bavarian) remains a desideratum. This is true in particular for Austrian varieties. The present study focusses on article variation and change in Austrian Upper German and discusses the status of article grammaticalization. To that effect, ‘radical’ cases of article use in Upper German are analysed, i.e. cases considered incorrect in standard German: the use of indefinite articles before mass nouns, of definite articles before proper nouns, and of indefinite articles in the

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Russ, Charles V. J. "Die Mundart von Bosco Gurin." Linguistik Online 20, no. 3 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.20.1061.

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Bosco Gurin, the highest village in the Swiss canton of Ticino, was settled before the first half of the thirteenth century from the Wallis. It is an independent community which has about 60-70 inhabitants. The Alemannic dialect spoken in the village, Gurinerdeutsch, has been investigated since the nineteenth century. The author has used these previous studies and collected more material in five in the village. This produced a monograph published in 2002. There are four main language varieties used in the village: High German, for parts of church services, notices and some administration; Ital

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Negro, Silvia Dal. "Language contact and variation patterns in Walser German subordination." STUF - Language Typology and Universals 67, no. 4 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2014-0025.

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AbstractWalser German is an archaic variety of Alemannic still spoken in few isolated communities in the Italian Alps. These dialects are characterized by extreme variability, language contact and decay. Moreover, they have developed independently from one another, partly because of different sociolinguistic conditions and partly because lack of contact from one another. Today, this variety of linguistic outcomes and sociolinguistic contexts offers us wealth of linguistic material that can help us reconstruct the development of innovative syntactic structures in subordination and of a mixed sy

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Dal Negro, Silvia, and Marco Angster. "Francoprovençal in contact with Walser German." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018, no. 249 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0043.

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AbstractThis article focuses on Francoprovençal (FP) from the perspective of language contact, specifically the reciprocal effects between FP and two dialects of German (Alemannic) spoken in the Aosta region and belonging to the severely endangered Walser minority group located in Northwestern Italy. On the basis of lexical evidence we describe a complex dynamics of language contact among communities embedded in one another. We found bidirectional exchanges between FP and one Walser variety, but much less so with the other. As a result, lexical distance revealed a pattern of contact, isolation

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Schrambke, Renate. "Changing from Syllable-Rhythm to Word-Rhythm: Parallels between Danish and Northern Alemannic." Dialectologia et Geolinguistica 2007, no. 15 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/dialect.2007.008.

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Braun, Bettina, Nathalie Czeke, Jasmin Rimpler, et al. "Remote Testing of the Familiar Word Effect With Non-dialectal and Dialectal German-Learning 1–2-Year-Olds." Frontiers in Psychology 12 (December 2, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.714363.

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Variability is pervasive in spoken language, in particular if one is exposed to two varieties of the same language (e.g., the standard variety and a dialect). Unlike in bilingual settings, standard and dialectal forms are often phonologically related, increasing the variability in word forms (e.g., German Fuß “foot” is produced as [fus] in Standard German and as [fs] in the Alemannic dialect). We investigate whether dialectal variability in children’s input affects their ability to recognize words in Standard German, testing non-dialectal vs. dialectal children. Non-dialectal children, who typ

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Hofer, Lorenz. "Sprachliche und politische Grenzen im (ehemaligen) Dialektkontinuum des Alemannischen am Beispiel der trinationalen Region Basel (Schweiz) in Karten von SprecherInnen." Linguistik Online 20, no. 3 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.20.1062.

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A group of Swiss informants of the trinational Basel region were asked to draw maps of the regional language borders. Thus, the subjective assessment of language borders could be visualized. By means of these maps, changes in the former Alemannic dialect continuum in the Upper Rhine Area become transparent, which have developed by nation building, standardizing processes and diglossia. The experiment demonstrates in what way linguistic landscapes are perceived and what means informants use to visualize them. On the basis of this material, a tentative typology of linguistic maps can be establis

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