Lexicography and Language Variation

Philipp Stöckle, Sabine Wahl

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847016953
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Psycolinguistics
• Index: Literature

Lexicography is one of the oldest linguistic sub-disciplines and began to compile extensive corpora early on as the basis for dictionary work. Surprisingly, these corpora and the dictionary articles have not been used very frequently for the study of language variation, although most dictionaries do not only contain information about word meanings and grammar, but also on regional distribution or style level. This volume explores the value of lexicographical data in the study of language variation. The contributions focus on different types of dictionaries for different languages as well as on various linguistic research questions ranging from the dictionaries' approach to loan words or morphology to practical issues regarding digital frameworks for lexicographic work.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Philipp Stöckle / Sabine Wahl: Introduction
• Petra Storjohann: Linguistic Variation and Diversity in a Dictionary of German Confusables
• Andreas Nolda / Adrien Barbaresi / Alexander Geyken: A Newspaper Corpus for the Investigation of Diatopic Variation in Standard German – the ZDL-Regionalkorpus
• Grit Nickel / Alexander Werth: Dialect Dictionaries and the Reconstruction of Morphological Systems: a Case Study on German Plural Allomorphy
• Philipp Stöckle / Sabine Wahl: Exploring Diminutive Variation in the Bavarian Dialects of Austria: a Lexicographic Perspective
• Eva Wittenberg / Almut König / Mechthild Habermann: Grammatical Iconicity in the Expression of Augmentation in East Franconian
• Karlheinz Mörth: Refining the Structure: Applying TEI Lex-0 to the Concise isiZulu-English Internet Dictionary
• Volker Harm: The Deutsches Wörterbuch as a Resource for the Investigation of Loan Vocabulary
• Christina Katsikadeli: Samuel Krauss' Dictionary of Greek and Latin Loanwords in the Talmud, Midrash and the Targums (1898) Revisited: New Perspectives on Language Contact and Variation in Accordance to Recent Advances in (Digital) Lexicography (DLGenR)
• Yunlu Wan: Some Examples of Chinese Linguistic Borrowings in the Dicionário Português–Chinês (1583–1588)
• Thomas Krefeld / Stephan Lücke: Linguistic Diversity and Bidirectional Lexicography
• Manuel Raaf: Murphy's Law in Electronic Lexicography: What Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong. Frequent Challenges on the Example of Bavaria's Dialects Online