Local grammar

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Place grammars are grammars for very small-scale dialect and dialect areas. This includes individual villages, towns or very small regions. The place grammars owe their importance and justification to the fact that dialects of even neighboring places usually differ.

For the classification of place grammars

Languages ​​such as German or French, which are used in fairly large geographical areas, have regional varieties. In the case of German, the largest regional varieties are the Upper , Middle, and Low German dialects. Since these large-scale dialects also extend over large regions, they can in turn be divided into smaller dialect areas. These, too, are not uniform; rather, they differ from place to place. Place grammars are now grammars for this smallest regional linguistic unit, which is understood as the “lowest community of communication (ie above the family or individual way of speaking)” (Glück 2005: 463).

An example

One of the three major dialect areas of German is Middle German. This is divided into a West German and an East Central German . Ripuarian , Moselle-Franconian , Rhine-Franconian and Hessian are still relatively large dialect areas of West Central German . Each of these smaller dialect areas in turn contains smaller areas: The Moselle Franconian of Trier is different than z. B. that of Koblenz. This has reached the level of local dialects . It is the task of the place grammars to grasp the particularities of the speech styles of the individual places. But if you look, for example, in a local grammar of Koblenz, you will find out that this local dialect has clear sound differences between the old town and suburbs.

On the meaning of place grammars

The tradition of local grammar begins with Jost Winteler (1876). In the meantime there is an abundance of such place grammars, the focus of which is usually the specific sound system , often supplemented by a representation of the inflection . Other areas of grammar and the lexicon can also be taken into account. These local grammars form the basis for considering the larger dialect areas to which the local dialects they describe belong.

See also

literature

  • Helmut Glück (Ed.), With the collaboration of Friederike Schmöe : Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 3rd, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02056-8 .
  • Peter Wiesinger , Elisabeth Raffin: Bibliography on the grammar of German dialects. Phonology, form, word formation and sentence theory. 1800–1980, Bern / Frankfurt am Main 1982; a supplement from 1987.
  • Jost Winteler : The basic features of the Kerenz dialect of the Canton of Glarus are presented. Winter, Leipzig / Heidelberg 1876.

Web links

Wiktionary: local grammar  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Classification according to: Werner König: dtv-Atlas German language. 15th, revised and updated edition. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 2005, p. 230f.
  2. ↑ Abstract in: Hannelore Graeber: New dictionary of the Koblenz dialect. 2nd Edition. Fuck, Koblenz 1992, ISBN 3-9803142-2-7 .
  3. ↑ Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.): Lexicon of Linguistics. 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-520-45203-0 , pp. 488-489.