Germanistische Linguistik

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)....

What opportunities does a framesemantic approach offer for historical language attitudes research? What are the risks to be considered when frames are used as a discourse analysis tool? This article sheds light on these two questions. It...

This essay deals with the German-Jewish community in Sosúa in the north of the Dominican Republic. This town was founded in the 1940s by a group of about 750 Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe and has not yet been researched...

In the midst of the Carnic Alps lies a German-based minority, Sauris/Zahre, which has migrated from the Austrian border region since the 12th century. This article explores the question of which measures are being taken to (re-)vitalise the zahrar...

Although the tun-periphrasis is stigmatized in Standard German, it often appears in dialects and extraterritorial varieties of German. While it is frequently used in Texas and Australia, it is extremely rare in Transylvania and Namibia. The...

This paper investigates how linguistic norms are negotiated in German-speaking localities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The aim of the article is to find out whether linguistic norms still play a role in a heterogeneous multilingual context in which...