Taal en Tongval - Volume 74, Issue 2, 2022

Abstract The present paper revisits Neuckermans’s (2008) proposal concerning the geographic distribution and diachronic genesis of different functions of the particle en, a remnant of Jespersen’s Cycle in the Southern Dutch dialects, and addresses van der Auwera’s (2009) claim that en may in some dialects of Dutch have developed into a non-negative marker of clausal subordination at the end of the cycle. Based on a 4 Read More

Abstract This article reports investigations into sound change at the community-level of Frisian and Low Saxon dialect groups in the north of the Netherlands, which differ in key factors influencing dialect decline. We combine phonetically transcribed corpora with dialectometric approaches that can quantify change among older male dialect speakers in a real-time framework. A multidimensional variant of the Levenshtein di Read More

Abstract The present study deals with levelling processes in the traditional Austrian dialects – on the one hand inter-dialectal levelling (= the reduction of variation between dialects), and on the other hand intra-dialectal levelling (= the reduction of variation within one dialect). The interplay of both processes is analysed for the realizations of postvocalic r (= variable (r)). Although a complex variability is stated for (r) Read More