Germanistische Linguistik

A characteristic feature of Upper German dialects is so called preterite decay. The fundamentals of this process are well understood. What is unknown, however, is the period of the later restitution of the preterite in written German in Switzerland....

In Standard German, the possessive pronoun sein ‘his, its’ is usually restricted to masculine and neuter possessors. However, in certain regional German dialects sein can also be used if the antecedent is feminine, making this...

Based on an analysis of historical reference corpora, the paper shows that the active construction consisting of sein + past participle, in conjunction with postural verbs, fulfills different functions that represent different degrees of...

The paper deals with the chances and limits of the corpus linguistic method for questions in the field of historical dialectology, in comparison to previous, “traditional” methods of dialectology. For this purpose, the results of a corpus...

The paper deals with the Mecklenburg colloquial language in the 19th century. Due to the lack of sources, this regional variety has been insufficiently recorded, both with regard to its structure and to its variation and use. Research...

Historical dialectology has a long tradition in the German-speaking world as the study of historical dialects, understood as spoken, highly localized language varieties. As such, it has developed methods that aim at meticulously analyzing traces of...

This study is part of our work on a corpus-based, variation-sensitive grammar of Middle Low German. The paper examines Middle Low German appellatives ending in -e based on data from the Reference Corpus Middle Low German / Low Rhenish (1200–1650)....