Hessen-Nassau dictionary
The Hessen-Nassau folk dictionary is one of the large-scale dialect dictionaries of German.
Characteristic
The Hessen-Nassau Folk Dictionary records the dialects of the former Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau , the Hessen-Darmstadt province of Upper Hesse, the principality (later Free State) of Waldeck , the Rhenish district of Wetzlar and the Westphalian district of Wittgenstein. In terms of linguistic geography, the dialect landscapes of Lower, Central and East Hessian as well as the fringes of Westphalian, East Westphalian, Thuringian, East Franconian, Rhine Franconian and Moselle Franconian are processed. The dialectical vocabulary of these areas was recorded as it was in use in the survey period from 1912 to 1934.
The Hessen-Nassau Folk Dictionary , which has been published since 1927, is strictly alphabetical according to standard-language or "non-standard language" lemmas (with cross-references to dialectical keywords) and covers the entire dialectic vocabulary, not just idiotisms. From the entire material of the Hesse-Nassau Folk Dictionary, which exists as a slip archive, it selects those documents that are considered to be guaranteed for the period from around the turn of the century to the completion of the surveys in 1934. Documented and older material is only used if it can help to clarify factual or grammatical facts, documents received later are only taken into account if they can also be proven for the period of validity. The Hessen-Nassau folk dictionary is more than any other dialect dictionary a synchronous dictionary of the dialects at the beginning of the 20th century. A "Historical Dictionary of Hesse and Nassau" originally planned as a supplement to the documentary materials has not yet been tackled.
The close personal and z. The spatial connection between the dictionary office and the Sprachatlas Institute (up to 1934 and since 1964 both institutions were located in close spatial proximity) meant that methods of dialect geography were incorporated into dialect lexicography. The Hessen-Nassau folk dictionary was the first to follow the word-geographic principle, i. H. Location information is no longer just a "guarantee notice", but a description of the scope of the keyword. Numerous word-geographical sketches and maps supplement the verbal information. Many dialect dictionaries developed later followed this example.
Explanations of subject and folk culture take up a large part of the folk dictionary. They become more important as the time elapses from the survey phase, since without them the semantic content of numerous keywords can no longer be deciphered for today's users. Numerous illustrations clarify individual facts.
history
- 1911 Project foundation by the Prussian Academy of Sciences (Head: Ferdinand Wrede , Director of the German Language Atlas)
- 1912–1934 collection of the material
- 1927 Start of publication of the "Hessen-Nassau Folk Dictionary"
- 1946 Financing is taken over by the State of Hesse
- In 1963 the "Hesse-Nassau Dictionary" department becomes an independent "research institute at the university"
- 1973 Merger with the German language research institute " Deutscher Sprachatlas ". Continuation as a department and integration of the research institute into the German and Artistic Department of the Philipps University of Marburg .
editor
Ferdinand Wrede was the founder and first director . He was followed in 1934 by Luise Berthold , the first woman to obtain a habilitation from the Philipps University of Marburg. From 1971 onwards, Hans Friebertshäuser headed the institute or department, which Heinrich J. Dingeldein succeeded in 1994. In 2016 Alexander Werth became head of the office.
swell
The main part of the collections in the card machine comes from free surveys of recruited employees (mainly teachers), from a total of 45 questionnaires (some of which only related to sub-areas) and from written (printed and unprinted) sources such as dialect literature and scientific treatises. A considerable, methodologically particularly valuable part comes from direct surveys by doctoral students Ferdinand Wredes.
Furthermore, evidence of an extensive list of published documents of the area as well as written certificates in or about dialect from all times were included in the collections.
The material base comprises a list of notes with around 1 million entries, arranged alphabetically according to lemmas.
Publication status
- Volume 2 (L-R) 1943
- Volume 3 (S) 1967
- Volume 4 (T - Z) 2015
- Volume 1 (A - K) is in progress and will be published on the Internet and in several sub-volumes.
- An internet publication of the published parts is available (see web links).
literature
- Hessen-Nassau folk dictionary. From the collections created and managed by Ferdinand Wrede for a Hessen-Nassau dictionary […]. Started by Luise Berthold, continued by Hans Friebertshäuser and Heinrich J. Dingeldein. Volumes 2-4, Verlag Elwert: Marburg, 1943-2015.
- H. Friebertshäuser: Hesse-Nassau folk dictionary. In: Dialect Lexicography. Reports on the status and methods of German dialect dictionaries. Ceremony for Luise Berthold on her 85th birthday on January 27, 1976. Ed. H. Friebertshäuser, Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics. Booklets. NF 17, Wiesbaden 1976, pp. 91-103
- The research institute for the German language "Deutscher Sprachatlas" 1988–1992 . Scientific report. Ed. V. J. Göschel, Marburg 1992.