Palatinate dictionary
The Palatinate Dictionary is a large-scale dialect dictionary for the area of the Palatinate as well as exemplarily the Palatinate-influenced settlement dialects in Southeast and Eastern Europe ( Batschka , Banat , Galicia , Bukowina , Black Sea area) and in North America ( Pennsylvania ).
type
The Palatinate Dictionary is a dictionary for scientific use and for the interested layperson. It is predominantly synchronized (dialect status at the end of the 19th and first half of the 20th century), but a selection also includes historical evidence from archival sources (documents, lists of goods, wisdoms, inventories, etc.). The entire vocabulary of the Palatinate basic dialects as well as local colloquial languages, local sociolects (craftsmen, traders, crooks, etc.) is recorded. Name transmission (person, place and field names) only fragmentary.
Neighboring large-scale dictionaries are the Rhenish dictionary to the northwest , the South Hessian dictionary to the northeast, the Baden dictionary to the east, the dictionary of Alsatian dialects to the south and the dictionary of German-Lorraine dialects to the southwest .
history
- Founding of the company in 1912/13 in the course of the founding of the dictionary of the Academy of Sciences in Munich :
- Bavarian dictionary for old Bavaria
- Franconian dictionary for the Bavarian franc
- Palatinate dictionary for the then Bavarian Palatinate
- First collecting work came to a standstill due to the First World War and post-war confusion
- 1925 Ernst Christmann was appointed as a full-time collector and set up a dictionary office
- 1925 to 1935 main collection phase (86 questionnaires)
- 1936 to 1954 stagnation due to Christmann's departure and World War II
- After the Second World War, he became responsible for the newly founded Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz
- 1954 Julius Krämer begins further work (supplementary questionnaires, organization of the material)
- 1965 Start of publication
- 1981 J. Krämer leaves for reasons of age, successor Rudolf Post
- The six-volume Palatinate Dictionary was completed in 1998 with an addendum
The materials can still be viewed in the Palatinate Dictionary Archive, benzinoring 6, 67657 Kaiserslautern.
In the “Dictionary Network” project, which is being developed in the “Competence Center for Electronic Indexing and Publication Processes in the Humanities” at the University of Trier , an online version of the Palatinate dictionary was created that is linked to other dictionaries.
Following the completed six-volume work, Rudolf Post published the one-volume Small Palatinate Dictionary in 2000, which offers "an overview of important interesting words in Palatinate".
swell
The material collection is based on indirect questionnaires with a high density of evidence (approx. 60 to 70%), in addition to detailed surveys of voluntary collectors on extensive topics (approx. 10% density of documents), questions mostly onomasiological, answers in lay transcription; in addition to a lot of spontaneous material from voluntary collectors. Between 1955 and 1966 there were field surveys with tape (approx. 5% coverage). The collection was supplemented by excerpts from written sources (scientific monographs, local dictionaries, dialect literature, etc.). The material basis comprised a card catalog of approx. 1.5 million cards.
publication
- Volume 1 (A - C) 1968
- Volume 2 (D - F) 1975
- Volume 3 (G - J) 1980
- Volume 4 (K - M) 1986
- Volume 5 (L - Schw) 1993
- Volume 6 (Se - Z) 1997
- Supplement (list of sources, index, etc.) 1998.
literature
- Preface to the Palatinate Dictionary, Volume 1, pp. VII – XVII.
- Julius Krämer: Palatinate Dictionary. In: Dialect Lexicography. Reports on the status and methods of German dialect dictionaries. Ceremony for Luise Berthold on her 85th birthday. Edited by H. Friebertshäuser (= ZDL. Supplements N. F. 17). Wiesbaden 1976, pp. 69-78.
- Rudolf Post: Palatinate. Introduction to a language landscape. 2nd Edition. Landau 1992, pp. 219-238.