There are three main groups of Swabian dialects: South-East Swabian, West Swabian and Central Swabian. The language is also known as Swabian German, Swabian dialect, Schwaebisch or Suabian. There is some literature in Swabian, including prose and poetry. Each author has their own way of writin...
do German and Dutch standard speakers maintain their first language variety better than German (Swabian) and Dutch (Limburgs) dialect speakers? The investigation proved that the overall rate of language maintenance in the first generation was not greatly influenced by the fact that the informant was...
do German and Dutch standard speakers maintain their first language variety better than German (Swabian) and Dutch (Limburgs) dialect speakers? The investigation proved that the overall rate of language maintenance in the first generation was not greatly influenced by the fact that the informant was...
In order to understand the contemporary conditions of its emergence it is necessary to first outline the debate about the standardization of German.doi:10.1515/9783110901351.86Joachim ScharlothScharloth, J. (2005). The revolutionary argumentative pattern in puristic discourse: The Swabian dialect in ...
The study employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to propose an intonational grammar of Swabian and Upper Saxon German, respectively. The analysis is guided by the assumption that each dialect exhibits a specific distinct intonation. The phonological analysis is comparative in nature: the...
The study employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to propose an intonational grammar of Swabian and Upper Saxon German, respectively. The analysis is guided by the assumption that each dialect exhibits a specific distinct intonation. The phonological analysis is comparative in nature: the...
The northern German poet Heinrich von Veldeke produced the Eneide (c. 1170; written in an intermediate dialect that contained elements of both Low and High German), a “modern” version of Virgil’s Aeneid adapted from the anonymous Old French Roman d’Énéas. It turns on the two loves...