Southwest German Language Atlas

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The Southwest German Language Atlas covers the linguistic geography of the Alemannic dialects of southern Baden and southern Württemberg .

history

  • Project founded in 1972 in the historical regional studies department of the German Seminar I at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
  • From 1972 preparatory surveys to develop a questionnaire
  • 1974 Start of recordings and funding by the German Research Foundation
  • From 1975 processing of the collected data with computers
  • Completion of the surveys in 1986
  • Publication began in 1989
  • Completion of the work in 2010
  • Publication completed in 2012

method

By 1986 approx. 600 locations had been surveyed on the basis of a network of grid squares (with an edge length of approx. 6 km), of which 579 were earmarked for mapping.

The questionnaire is based on the questionnaires on the Language Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland (SDS) and the Vorarlberg Language Atlas including the Principality of Liechtenstein, West Tyrol and Allgäu (VALTS). The Teuthonista phonetic transcription was used in the project , which essentially uses alphabet characters for the basic phonetic values ​​and expresses the exact phonetic details via diacritics. Phonetically trained explorers entered the answers of the sources in the questionnaire directly on site. In addition, tape recordings were made at selected locations for control purposes only. The questionnaire contains around 2,200 questions that are devoted to the areas of sound geography, shape geography, word geography, and to a small extent also syntactic and sociolinguistic problems.

The type of mapping, with its relatively large density of the network of images and the representation of individual linguistic phenomena, is in the tradition of German-speaking dialectology. As with the questionnaire, the language atlas of German-speaking Switzerland, which predominantly only uses point symbol maps, is a particular example. The SSA also mainly uses point symbols to represent the individual facts on the maps. The maps are published on a basemap at a scale of 1: 600,000.

Publication status

The SSA was declared completed in 2010, although there are still major gaps in the morphological and lexical areas. The last delivery appeared in 2011. That means ten deliveries have been made since 1989.
The SSA maps are also available on the Internet via the homepage of the digital Wenker Atlas and via the Regionalssprache.de project (see below).

literature

  • Hugo Steger , Volker Schupp , Eugen Gabriel : Introduction to the Southwest German Language Atlas, Part I. Elwert, Marburg 1993, ISBN 3-7708-1015-5 .
  • Hugo Steger, Volker Schupp, Eugen Gabriel: Introduction to the Southwest German Language Atlas, Part II. Elwert, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-7708-1101-1 . Content: The questionnaire. Admission protocols. Timeline of the recordings.
  • Hugo Steger, Volker Schupp, Bernhard Kelle: Comments on the Southwest German Language Atlas. 1. Delivery. Elwert, Marburg 1997, ISBN 3-7708-1082-1 .
  • Volker Schupp (Ed.), Rudolf Bühler (Ed.): Southwest German Language Atlas. Register tape. Elwert, Marburg 2012 (also contains a summarizing afterword).

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