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Preterit Loss in Early Modern Nuremberg
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Bagwell, Angela Catania – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigates "Prateritumschwund," one of the most salient developments in the Upper German dialect area during the Early Modern period. Drawing on a wide range of text types originating in Nuremberg and its surrounding areas from the 13th to the 17th centuries, this study tests various hypotheses put forward as alleged causes…
Descriptors: German, Dialects, Language Research, Diachronic Linguistics
Language Variation, Language Change and Perceptual Dialectology
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Gessinger, Joachim – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2010
Subjective and objective language data collected in a research project on language variation in north Germany not only reveal information on current linguistic trends in north Germany; they also show how language change in this region is represented in the consciousness of the speakers themselves and described in comments by them. This diachronic…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, German
Cross-Language Analysis and Second Language Acquisition. Volume 1. Jyvaskyla Cross-Language Studies, No. 9.
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Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1983
A collection of 17 papers, most presented at the Fifth International Conference on Contrastive Projects in June 1982 in Finland, includes: "Present Trends in Contrastive Linguistics,""Contrastive Linguistics in Bulgaria,""Communicative Competence in Foreign Language Teaching: A Project Report,""From Traditional…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics