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A Quantitative Approach to Swiss German Dialect Syntax
No full textIn the last decades, dialectometry has emerged as a new field of dialectology. As this kind of research requires large amounts of data, many dialectometric studies used data from “traditional” dialect atlases (e. g. ALF, AIS, RND) which were collected by investigating representatives of the oldest dialects available in the survey locations (i.e. the so-called NORMs, cf. Chambers & Trudgill 2004: 29). Moreover, these data contained mostly lexical and phonological (and sometimes morphological) variables, while syntactic phenomena are largely absent in traditional atlases. In this paper we would like to present results of a dialectometric study that focuses on three aspects which have not been given much attention in previous research. The first aspect concerns the research area, German-speaking Switzerland. Although it is one of the liveliest and at the same time best researched dialect areas in Central Europe, until recently (cf. Goebl et al. 2013, Scherrer & Stoeckle accepted) there have been very few dialectometric studies in this area (cf. Kelle 2001). The second aspect regards the investigated linguistic level: our analyses are based on syntax data from the Syntactic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland (‘Syntaktischer Atlas der deutschen Schweiz', SADS; cf. Glaser & Bart 2015) which were collected between 2000 and 2002 in 383 locations German-speaking Switzerland. A special characteristic of this atlas – which leads to the third aspect we will focus on – lies in the large number of informants and their varying socio-demographic backgrounds. Whereas in traditional atlas projects, generally one or two representatives were interviewed at each survey location, in the SADS a total of almost 3200 informants participated in the survey (i. e. on average about 8 speakers per location). This gives us not only the possibility to work with frequency instead of binary data for each location, but more importantly, this setting allows us to include socio-demographic variables into our analyses. In other geographic and sociolinguistic contexts, extralinguistic variables other than geography turned out to be important explanatory factors for dialect variation (cf. Hansen-Morath 2016, Hansen-Morath & Stoeckle 2014). As for German-speaking Switzerland, various studies focusing on single phenomena from the SADS revealed high correlations between syntactic and socio-demographic variation (cf. Stoeckle accepted, Friedli 2012, Richner-Steiner 2011). However, it is still unclear whether this correlation can be observed for aggregated data and what role socio-demographic variables play in explaining syntactic variation. In order to answer these questions, we will pursue a twofold approach. On the one hand, we will create different subsets with respect to socio-demographic variables and perform dialectometric analyses for each of these subsets. A comparison of the results will help to answer the question whether a change in the geographic dialect structuring can be observed. On the other hand, we will perform regression analyses in order to determine the importance of different extralinguistic factors in explaining linguistic variation. Finally, the results will have to be interpreted in the light of the specific Swiss-German diaglossic situation, where (contrary to many other contexts) change toward both dialectal and standard structures can be observed
Countering the urbanist agenda in variationist sociolinguistics: dialect contact, demographic change and the rural-urban dichotomy
No full textIn variational linguistics, the concept of space has always been a central issue. However, different research traditions considering space coexisted for a long time separately. Traditional dialectology focused primarily on the diatopic dimension of linguistic variation, whereas in sociolinguistic studies diastratic and diaphasic dimensions were considered. For a long time only very few linguistic investigations tried to combine both research traditions in a two-dimensional design – a desideratum which is meant to be compensated by the contributions of this volume. The articles present findings from empirical studies which take on these different concepts and examine how they relate to one another. Besides dialectological and sociolinguistic concepts also a lay perspective of linguistic space is considered, a paradigm that is often referred to as “folk dialectology”. Many of the studies in this volume make use of new computational possibilities of processing and cartographically representing large corpora of linguistic data. The empirical studies incorporate findings from different linguistic communities in Europe and pursue the objective to shed light on the inter-relationship between the different concepts of space and their relevance to variational linguistics
Schweizerdeutsche Dialekte quantitativ – Dialektometrische Analysen und Vergleich linguistischer Ebenen
No full textIn den letzten Jahrzehnten hat sich die Dialektometrie als integraler Bestandteil dialektologischer Forschung etabliert. Das Ziel dialektometrischer Studien besteht darin, durch das Messen sprachlicher Ähnlichkeiten bzw. Unterschiede auf der Basis aggregierter Dialektdaten und unter Anwendung statistischer Verfahren höhere Ordnungsstrukturen wie Dialektgebiete oder Übergangszonen aufzudecken, die aufgrund der Betrachtung einzelner Karten nicht erkennbar wären. Die deutschsprachige Schweiz zählt mit Sicherheit zu den lebendigsten und gleichzeitig am besten erforschten Dialektlandschaften Europas. Umso erstaunlicher ist es, dass es bisher nur wenige dialektometrische Studien zum Schweizerdeutschen gibt (Kelle 2001, Goebl et al. 2013) und in keiner dieser Studien die Ebene der Syntax berücksichtigt wurde. An dieser Stelle setzt unser Vortrag an, mit dem wir zwei Ziele verfolgen: Zum einen wollen wir die digitalen Daten präsentieren, die wir für unsere Analysen verwenden. Dazu zählen sowohl 282 Einzeldatensätze aus dem Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz (SDS; Hotzenköcherle 1962-1997), die in den letzten Jahren auf der Basis von Atlaskarten digitalisiert wurden, als auch 68 Einzeldatensätze aus dem Syntaktischen Atlas der deutschen Schweiz (SADS; Bucheli & Glaser 2002). Dabei werden wir besonders auf die methodischen Herausforderungen eingehen, die sich sowohl aufgrund der verschiedenen Ortsnetze der beiden Atlanten als auch der unterschiedlichen Informantenauswahl für den Vergleich der beiden Datensätze ergeben. Zum anderen wollen wir die Ergebnisse dialektometrischer Analysen präsentieren, die wir mit diesen beiden Datensätze durchgeführt haben (Scherrer und Stoeckle i.V.). Zunächst werden wir zeigen, wie sich die schweizerdeutsche Dialektlandschaft mittels Clusteranalysen unter Einbeziehung unserer Gesamtdaten gliedern lässt und wie sich diese Gliederung in die Erkenntnisse bisheriger dialektologischer Forschung (z.B. Haas 2000, Hotzenköcherle 1984) einreiht. Im nächsten Schritt wollen wir untersuchen, wie sich die verschiedenen linguistischen Ebenen (Phonologie, Morphologie, Lexik auf der Grundlage des SDS; Syntax auf der Grundlage des SADS) zueinander und zur Gesamtgliederung verhalten. Die dafür verwendeten Verfahren umfassen Korrelationen (sowohl der Ebenen untereinander als auch der Ebenen mit der Geographie) sowie Parameterkarten, anhand derer sich Rückschlüsse auf die Verteilung von innovativen und konservativen Regionen, Dialektzentren oder Übergangszonen ziehen lassen. Es wird deutlich, dass sich für alle vier Ebenen grundsätzlich ähnliche geographische Muster ergeben (dynamische Gebiete im Norden vs. konservative Gebiete im Süden, grosse Übereinstimmung von Dialekt- und Kantonsgrenzen, hohe Korrelation mit Geographie), die Syntax jedoch die grössten Abweichungen aufweist
Philipp Melanchthon
Get PDFPhilipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) was, with Martin Luther, the most influential reformer of the church during the 16th century. He was also a reformer of university education, especially theological studies, as well as the school system in Germany. He was responsible for a theological curriculum that included Greek, Hebrew, and philosophy. He, as a professor of Greek at the University of Wittenberg since 1518, was the author of the first generally accepted Protestant confession, known as the Confessio Augustana (1530). He also wrote the first Protestant commentaries on Paul’s letter to the Romans (1519), as well as the first Protestant handbook in systematic theology (1521). He was the main negotiator of the Protestant movement during the diets and religious discussions with the Roman Catholic Church. He is known as the ‘teacher of Germany and Europe’ and is respected as the father of the ecumenical movement. Yet, Melanchthon is not known to South Africans and especially Afrikaans-speaking people who, traditionally, have close links with the reformational tradition. There is not yet one single publication on Melanchthon in Afrikaans or by a South African scholar, making this book, therefore, the first by an Afrikaans-speaking scholar on Melanchthon
#Bitcoin : an analysis of the field of a decentralized virtual currency using twitter data
No full textAuthor Philipp AllerstorferAbstract in englischer SpracheMasterarbeit Universität Linz 201
On Philipp Lersch’s Psychology, Reflection No. 2
No full textАвтор статті зазначає, що у 1930–1970 рр. Ф. Лерш був головним представником гуманітарної течії в німецькомовній психології. Наукову класифікацію людських прагнень і стремлінь було
викладено у головній праці Ф. Лерша «Структура особи» (11-те видання 1970 року). Ф. Лерш зумів
об’єднати у своїм творі інформацію із низки наук (біології, психопатології, із різних психологічних
теорій та концепцій).The author of the article notes that in 1930-1970, Philipp Lersch was the main representative of the
humanitarian direction in German psychology. A scientific classification of human aspirations and ambitions
was described in the main work by Philipp Lersch “Building the Person” (11th ed. of 1970). In his work,
Philipp Lersch managed to combine information from a number of sciences (biology, psychopathology, various
psychological theories and concepts)
Deformation Behavior and Damage Modeling of Polypropylene and Polycarbonate
No full textAuthor Philipp Siegfried StelzerKurzfassungen in deutscher und englischer SpracheMasterarbeit Universität Linz 201
Faktoren und Arten intrapersoneller Variation im Material des Syntaktischen Atlas der deutschen Schweiz (SADS)
No full textPhilipp Timischl x Numeró Art
No full textThis article discusses the intersections of gender and class drag in the work of Austrian artist Philipp Timischl. The essay takes the form of a letter of refusal, discussing why the author is simply too busy, then goes on to discuss other performances of industriousness, from Kevin Floyd's proposal that modern masculinity is a labour based performance through to the artist's own gender enhancing or swapping works
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