Commission for Dialect and Name Research in Westphalia

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The Westphalian Dialect and Name Research Commission (KoMuNa) is a scientific committee of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL). Alongside the Literature Commission for Westphalia , the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia , the Geographical Commission for Westphalia , the Historical Commission for Westphalia and the Commission for Everyday Culture Research for Westphalia, it is one of the LWL's six scientific commissions for regional studies.

The commission for dialect and name research, founded in 1972, has the task of promoting linguistic and literary research in Westphalia through studies, publications and collections. A work and research center that issues numerous publications, organizes conferences and lectures and offers a steadily growing internet portal for Westphalian linguistic research serves to implement their tasks. KoMuNa currently has 43 elected members.

history

The starting point for the establishment was the founding of the “Westphalian Provincial Dictionary” (today “Westphalian Dictionary”) in 1927 by the then provincial administration. A year later, the Folklore Commission for Westphalia was set up to provide institutional security for the dictionary. It was later divided into the “Folklore Department” and the “Dialect and Name Research Department”. Due to the expansion of tasks and projects as well as the differentiated subject-specific development within folklore and linguistics, both departments were appointed independent commissions in 1972. The KoMuNa works closely with the German Institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . The KoMuNa office currently employs three academic consultants, one academic volunteer, one administrative employee and five student volunteers. Annual reports with current information about publications and events of the KoMuNa appear in "Westfälische Forschungen. Journal of the LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History ” .

Chairperson

Chair since the founding of the commission:

Main projects of the job

Westphalian dictionary

The Westphalian dictionary documents the vocabulary of the Low German dialects in Westphalia-Lippe and is one of the 21 large-scale German dialect dictionaries . The dictionary is based on an archive inventory of more than 5 million documents, which was obtained through oral and written surveys, material from volunteer workers and the evaluation of relevant dialect literature and many other sources.

Westphalian proverb archive

The Westphalian proverb archive about a 30,000-evidence of proverbs, idioms and Sagwörter from all parts of Westphalia, which were collected from 1965 to 1970. The inventory is currently being prepared for publication.

Internet portal surname geography

The family name geography internet portal has been available since August 2006. It is based on telephone connection data from Deutsche Telekom from 2005. The user can display the spatial distribution of family names in Westphalia-Lippe in a map or table.

Interactive language atlas

The "Interactive Linguistic Atlas of Westphalian Platt" - ISA for short - has been online since 2015. The interactive linguistic atlas consists of 43 maps and enables the user to discover the diversity of the Westphalian dialects. The map view can be set individually. In addition, sound recordings from 67 locations are linked to the maps.

Westphalian Field Name Atlas (completed)

The Westphalian field name atlas was created on the basis of the Westphalian field name archive with its approx. 650,000 document units. The archive consists of numerous printed and handwritten collections as well as documents from cadastral surveys of the 19th century. The material was merged into a field name database in the 1980s. From 2000 to 2012 the atlas was published in five deliveries with 414 maps and 171 comments on the field names that are important for Westphalia.

Publication series

Low German word

The journal Niederdeutsches Wort , founded in 1960, has 57 volumes to date and is published by Aschendorff Verlag (Münster). It is one of the most important organs of Low German philology.

Low German Studies

The book series Low German Studies was founded in 1954 and is published by Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, Weimar, Vienna). 59 monographs and anthologies have been published so far.

Westphalian contributions to Low German philology

The book series Westphalian Contributions , founded in 1991, publishes smaller studies on Low German. They are published by Ardey Verlag (Münster). So far there are 17 volumes.

Westphalian dialects

The book series Westfälische Mundarten , founded in 2017, is published by Aschendorff Verlag (Münster). The individual Westphalian dialect regions are presented in colored illustrated volumes. Two volumes have been published so far.

Works

  • Westphalian Dictionary , Vol. I – IV: A to Sk, published 1973 to 2018
  • Westfälischer Flurnamenatlas, Lfg. 1–5 (complete), published from 2000 to 2012

literature

  • Robert Damme: The Westphalian Dictionary. In: Low German word. Vol. 37, 1997, ISSN  0078-0545 , pp. 13-20.
  • Robert Damme, Jan Goossens , Gunter Müller, Irmgard Simon, Tim Sodmann, Hans Taubken, Paul Teepe: The commission for dialect and name research in Westphalia. In: Westphalian research. Vol. 38, 1988, ISSN  0083-9027 , pp. 186-211.
  • Markus Denkler: Commission for Dialect and Name Research in Westphalia - Basic Linguistic Research for the Region. In: Home care in Westphalia. Vol. 16, No. 5, 2012, ISSN  0933-6346 , pp. 22-24, digital version (PDF; 3.78 MB) .
  • Jan Goossens: 25 years of the Westphalian Dialect and Name Research Commission. In: Low German word. Vol. 37, 1997, pp. 1-4.
  • Gunter Müller: From the Westphalian field name archive to the Westphalian field name atlas. In: Low German word. Vol. 37, 1997, pp. 21-34.
  • Irmgard Simon: The Lexicon of Westphalian Proverbs. In: Low German word. Vol. 37, 1997, pp. 35-43.
  • Hans Taubken: History and tasks of the commission for dialect and name research of Westphalia. In: Low German word. Vol. 37, 1997, pp. 5-12.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Denkler: Commission for Dialect and Name Research in Westphalia - Basic Linguistic Research for the Region. In: Home care in Westphalia. Vol. 16, No. 5, 2012, pp. 22-24.
  2. ^ Commission for dialect and name research in Westphalia - members
  3. ↑ Hans Taubken: history and functions of the Commission for dialect and Namenforschung Westphalia. In: Low German word. Vol. 37, 1997, pp. 5-12.
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Hermann Niebaum is the new chairman of the LWL Commission for Dialect and Name Research in Westphalia, LWL press release of June 4, 2014
  5. ^ Commission for dialect and onomatology of Westphalia - Westphalian dictionary
  6. ^ Robert Damme: The Westphalian dictionary. In: Low German word. Vol. 37, 1997, ISSN  0078-0545 , pp. 13-20.
  7. ^ Commission for Dialect and Name Research in Westphalia - Lexicon of Westphalian proverbs and sayings
  8. ↑ Irmgard Simon: The Lexicon of Westphalian Proverbs. In: Low German word. Vol. 37, 1997, pp. 35-43.
  9. ^ Commission for Dialect and Name Research in Westphalia - Family Name Geography
  10. ^ Commission for Dialect and Name Research in Westphalia - Interactive Language Atlas
  11. ^ Commission for Dialect and Name Research in Westphalia - Interactive Language Atlas Info
  12. ^ Commission for dialect and name research in Westphalia - field names atlas
  13. ^ Gunter Müller: From the Westphalian field name archive to the Westphalian field name atlas. In: Low German word. Vol. 37, 1997, pp. 21-34.