Berndeutsch-Grammatik für die heutige Mundart zwischen Thun und Jura. Kleiner Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz. Stadtmundart : Stadt- und Landmundart : Beiträge zurĬhristen Helen, Glaser Elvira und Friedli Matthias (2012). Bern, Basel: Francke Verlagīaumgartner, Heinrich (1940). Whereas the pronunciation of the variable Fenster was represented by (fæiʃtəɾ) in the majority of places examined in the SDS within the greater area of Bern, today the realization (fænʃtəɾ) is common to be found.Ĭurrently, more variables and places are examined in order to present the shift of the isogloss as soon as possible.īaumgartner Heinrich, Hotzenköcherle Rudolf (1962-2003). the decline of pronunciation according to Staub's law (/n/-> ø_fricative with vowel lengthening and/or diphthongisation) shows. Already the present, relatively small set of data shows tendencies, which support my suggestions, as e.g. I suggest the main reasons for language change in my research area in speaker mobility and migration movement. In this respect, my project differs clearly from the SDS, where mainly NORMs have been taken into account (one or two per place). This occupational group is meant to be more traditional in respect of language, as the language atlas of Middle Franconia (cf. The speakers are classified in three age groups (18-35, 35-65, 65+) and I also take an agriculturalist into account. My survey includes 20 places in the greater area of Bern where I record 4 speakers per place. ʃti:kx) or recent lexical changes as from Swiss German Nidle (ni:dlə) to Rahm (rɑ:m), a variant which is mainly used in southern Germany and Austria. Of special interest are borrowings from foreign languages, e.g. In addition to the variables originating in the SDS, also some new variables are taken into account. Currently I collect new data for Bern and its greater area according to selected variables already surveyed in the SDS, and I then compare the new data to the original data. In my project the focus is on language change in the research area and on reasons for the present changes. Therefore, developments which origin in language contact or speaker mobility and have effectively influenced the dialects of this region, have not been documented to the present day. Hodler 1969 on Bernese German syntax, Marti 1976 on Bernese German grammar more generally or Siebenhaar 2000 on social varieties in the city of Bern, but the dialect has not been examined in its entirety. Since then, only very specific factors of this particular linguistic variety have been examined, e.g. 1962-2003) we find data on the greater area of Bern (Berner Mittelland), collected around 1944. In the atlas of German-speaking Switzerland (SDS) (cf. Language Variation in Bernese Swiss German She is interested in non-standard Germanic varieties, their grammar, and contact between them.Pres_Language variation and change in Bernese Swiss German.pdfĪvailable under License BORIS Standard License. Germanic Linguistics and is now a postdoctoral researcher working on the “Amish Shwitzer” project. His research specialization lies at the interface between historical and variationist linguistics and theoretical modeling of grammatical structure and language change.Īnja Hasse received her Ph.D. Guido Seiler is a professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. This presentation will examine the fascinating evolution of one of America’s unique minority languages. Rather than converging to American English, though, it has taken on elements of Pennsylvania Dutch. Amish Shwitzer has preserved much of its original Bernese-Swiss-German vocabulary, but its grammatical structure has changed drastically. The language sounds surprisingly familiar to speakers of modern Swiss-German dialects – and very different at the same time. Adams County, Indiana, is home to the Swiss Amish, a population that does do not speak Pennsylvania Dutch, but Shwitzer.
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