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Summary. The continental West Germanic dialect continuum roughly encompasses the territory of modern-day Germany, Austria, the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the Netherlands, the northern half of Belgium (Flanders), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and South Tyrol, in northern Italy.
- 1. Summary and key-words
- Sažetak i ključne riječi
- 2.Introduction
- 3. Dialect
- 4. Definition of Dialect Continuum
- 8.2. Diachronical Approach
- 9. Conclusion
This paper deals with the issue of dialect continuum, which is a range of dialects spoken in some geographical area that are only slightly different between neighbouring areas. A dialect is not superior to another one, and certain dialects are considered languages mostly because of historical, political, and geographical reasons. We cannot discus...
Ovaj završni rad bavi se pitanjima o narječnom kontinuitetu, a to je niz narječja koji se govore na nekom zamljopisnom području, a samo malo su drugačiji od narječja susjednih područja. Narječje nije superiorno u odnosu na neko drugo narječje, a određena narječja smatraju se jezicima ponajviše zbog povijesnih, političkih i zemljopisnih razloga. Ne...
The aim of this paper is to explain the term dialect continuum, some basic problems and principles in the interpretation of dialect data, and also the exploitation of linguistic situations to a variety of ideological and political purposes. Some linguistic problems concerning the implication of segmentation and separation, the impact of methodical ...
This section will be concerned with the definition of dialect since an understanding of this concept is crucial for the topic we are discussing in this paper. One problem in the definition of dialect is that the scientific idea of the term runs parallel to the lay conceptions of dialect. In the opinion of non-linguists, a dialect carries negative...
This section will deal with the definition of dialect continuum, because it is crucial to know what a dialect continuum is, before discussing it in more detail. If we travel from village to village, in a particular direction, we notice linguistic differences which distinguish one village from another. The further we get from our starting point, t...
The diachronical point of view gives a historical development and changes of those dialects. Three dialect areas can be isolated according to three distinct groups of linguistic features: Only Ionic, Arcado-Cyprian and Lesbian share some same features so that it can be concluded that dialect within this isoglosses (Ionic, Arcado-Cyprian and Lesbi...
All thing considered, it can be seen that it has always been difficult to decide what a language and what a dialect is, and that autonomy and heteronomy of a dialect or language are more a result of cultural and political than linguistic factors. When a range of dialects are spoken in some geographical area that are only slightly different betwee...
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Local dialects of the West Germanic continuum are oriented towards either Standard Dutch or Standard German, depending on which side of the border they are spoken. [11] Standard varieties may be developed and codified at one or more locations in a continuum until they have independent cultural status (autonomy), a process the German linguist ...
Conclusions a large number of shared innovations (some of them ordered) indicate that there was a common proto-stage in the development of the West Germanic languages. In addition, we can recover not only much of a Proto-West-Germanic dialect continuum, but elements of a north-West-Germanic dialect continuum as well.
This article examines the syntactic patterns of Continental West-Germanic languages. It explains that Continental West-Germanic dialects display largely identical syntax, characterized by an asymmetry between main and embedded clauses with respect to the position of the finite verb, and by the clause-final position of clusters of nonfinite verbs.
