Pheiff, Jeffrey (2022). Historical Dialect Questionnaires and Grammatical Variation and Change. Feminine Motion and Negative Concord in the Willems Questionnaires. Sprachwissenschaft, 47(1), pp. 1-45. Universitätsverlag Winter
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)The Willems questionnaires form a corpus of historical dialect data. The question- naires were distributed to over 300 locations starting in 1885 by a Belgian philologist named Pieter Willems. Willems surveyed dialect speakers from Belgium, the Netherlands, French Flanders, Luxemburg and Germany. Until now, the German and Luxemburgish questionnaires have barely come to the attention of German dialectologists. The focus of this article will be on the 59 questionnaires from the current Federal Republic of Germany, mostly representing West Central German dialects. These questionnaires are very extensive and comprehensively docu- ment large segments of the morphology (and syntax) of the dialects. This article aims to 1) provide an overview of this survey and a description of the available German (and Luxembur- gish) questionnaires, to 2) discuss the unique chance that the questionnaires offer for empiri- cally oriented research on grammatical variation and change in German dialects as well as discuss some critiques of the material, and 3) to present two case studies on feminine motion and negative concord, showing the potential of the material for answering old questions and offering new insights.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages |
UniBE Contributor: |
Pheiff, Jeffrey Alan |
Subjects: |
400 Language > 430 German & related languages 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 830 German & related literatures 400 Language > 410 Linguistics |
ISSN: |
0344-8169 |
Publisher: |
Universitätsverlag Winter |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Jeffrey Alan Pheiff |
Date Deposited: |
16 May 2022 12:59 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 16:18 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/169314 |
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