Search results for "dialectology"

Migrazione e variazione diatopica, mobilità e cambio linguistico. Premesse allo studio delle varietà italoalbanesi

2022

For the Italo-Albanian reality, the diatopic-diachronic relationship of dialect variation takes on different aspects compared to that experienced in the Italo-Romance reality. This is due to the fact that the linguistic-geographical dislocation (prior and subsequent to the diaspora) and the diachronic distribution of the various migratory stages, have produced historical and territorial discontinuity of the archipelagos and of the Arbëreshë islands variously distributed in the Italo-Romance continuum. In addition to this differential factor between the order of dialectological studies of the Italo-Romance sphere and those relating to the Italo-Albanian reality, other problematic relationshi…

"Masmari": ricostruzione di un microtoponimo siculoalbanese

2021

Sometimes local administrators, even when well intentioned, contribute to the destruction of some monuments tied to the collective memory of a community. This happens when they decide to cover streams or remove boulders and with them the names by which they have been known to the community. In this way they cancel significant references for local toponymy. This essay takes as an example a microtoponym of the Albanian community of Piana degli Albanesi ("Guri i masmarit"), whose referent - a large boulder placed in an important town location - was supposed to be removed in 1975. The essay is focused on the toponym whose official interpretation ('Pietra di Maria') is linked to a local legend a…

Arbëreshë

2019

The essay aims to illustrate the fundamental questions that, in the dialectological and sociolinguistic framework, have engaged and engage the communicative space of those Italo-Albanian communities that, having arrived in different migratory waves between the 15th and 18th centuries, have created a new linguistic and cultural facies of some southern Italian regions. After having illustrated the current distribution of the Albanian-speaking communities, some dialectical phenomena have been examined from a diachronic and diatopic perspective, in support of the hypothesis that each Italo-Albanian community is the result of re-combinations of groups from different origins from their very first…

Leksyka i frazeologia śląska. Stan, potrzeby, perspektywy badań

2017

This article is part of a trend of studies on dialectal lexis and phraseology. Its aim is to present the current state of research on the lexicon and phraseology of Silesia and an indication of the most urgent research needs in this area. The study contains a list and description of the most important lexicographical work and articles on various aspects of the Silesian vocabulary and phraseology.

Dialektalny wariant niemczyzny w Gościęcinie na Górnym Śląsku

2015

Die deutsche Sprache in Oberschlesien am Beispiel des Sprachinseldeutschen von Kostenthal/Gościęcin

2017

As one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, German is not any way a uniform from of communication. The present contribution will deal with German in Silesia particularly the German spoken in the Upper Silesian language island (Sprachinsel) of Kostenthal (Gościęcin). Following an introduction to the historical development of this language island. I will present several particularities of this German variety. The idiosyncrasies of the base dialect of Kostenthal that are reflected in the predominant German Umgangssprache spoken locally today will then be shown.

Neuere Fragestellungen in der Sprachinseldialektologie

2018

Language islands are the source of many interesting materials in the field of research on language contacts concerning longer time periods in diachronic and synchronous approaches. They are particularly valuable for the research on minority languages and their existence among the majority speaking another language. Wilamowice and Schönwald municipalities represent German language islands in Silesia that date back to the colonization in the Middle Ages. Their research makes it possible not only to analyze their relations with reference to another German dialects but also to capture a wider development mechanisms of language extinction processes as well as the forms of their integration with …

Ladinia dolomitica

2020

Scopo di questo contributo è offrire una panoramica sull’area che viene usualmente definita “Ladinia dolomitica” e sulla varietà linguistica che vi viene tradizionalmente parlata, il ladino. L'articolo descrive brevemente la storia dell'area e dello sviluppo del ladino, e in seguito descrive le caratteristiche fonologiche, morfologiche, sintattiche e lessicali principali del ladino, che lo distinguono dalle vicine varietà italoromanze. In seguito si illustrano le peculiarità linguistiche dei singoli dialetti ladini, che sono parlati ognuno in una valle diversa delle Dolomiti. L'articolo è fortemente innovativo e originale, perché permette di ascoltare i file audio che esemplificano i tratti…

Atlas of the Baltic languages: from idea to pilot project

2015

Atl as of the B a ltic l a ngu a ge s : from idea to pilot project Dialectologists from Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia and the Department of Language History and Dialectology of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, have developed a proposal for a joint project entitled, The Atlas of the Baltic Languages, which is intended to demonstrate the close kinship of these two Baltic languages. A pilot project, supported by a grant from the University of Latvia and Directorate for the Millenium of Lithuania has been carried out between 2006 and 2008 to determine what the form and eventual content of such an atlas might be. In 2009 a summary of work carried out on the pilo…

Atlas of the Baltic languages: plant names of Slavonic origin

2015

Atlas of the Baltic Languages: Plant Names of Slavonic Origin The article investigates Slavonic-derived plant names in dialects of the two surviving Baltic languages – Latvian and Lithuanian. Historically, these Slavonisms were originally adopted by small-scale regional dialects, which are now disappearing. In 2009, a pilot study for the Atlas of the Baltic Languages was published. It comprised 12 geo-linguistic maps with Latvian, Lithuanian and English commentaries. 2012 saw the publication, in CD format, of the Atlas ’s first volume: Lexis 1: Flora . The material analysed concerns names for: (1) wild plants, e.g., cornflower, nettle, waybread, milfoil, dandelion, plantain; (2) cultivated …