LL-L 'Language varieties' 2006.07.29 (02) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 29 July 2006 * Volume 02
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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L 'Language varieties'

Beste Karl-Heinz,

You wrote:
> The last one is also typical of the dialects in the districts of Landeck and
> Imst. I'm pretty sure that a lot of Western Tyrolean would even say: "ga inkoufa
> gwest" with this funny little word "ga", in Switzerland mostly "go", which is
> interpreted as "gehen". I doubt this a little, as it doesn't function as a verb,
> but something like "zum" or "am". Maybe it is from Rhaetoroman or a
> misinterpreted ge- prefix. On the other side in many Swiss variants its syntax
> is: Bisch ... gsi go inchoufe
>
This reminds me of Brabantish, where you can either say:

"Zèr op de mèt iet wéste koeëpe?"

or

"Zèr op de mèt iet gà à koeëpe?"

However, "Zèr op de mèt iet wéste gà à koeëpe?", would be considered a
little "heavy", "over the top", grammatically not impossible, but a bit
like a double or triple negation.

To me the Western Tyrolean construction looks like the result of two
competing grammatical systems, and as such it is maybe a contamination?

Thanks so much for the "Alemannischer_Beispielsatz ". At the bottom of
the page there's a link to the so-called "Das Chochichästli-Orakel"
(http://dialects.from.ch/\), a nice application that tries to guess where
your (Swiss) dialect is spoken if you tell it how you pronounce a number
of keywords.

I'd really love to see something like that working for the Lowlands, or
better even for the whole of the Germanic homelands.
If you would have such an engine on the Lowlands-site Ron, now that
would draw visitors!

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

PS: Ron, Western Encoding (ISO-8859-1) works better than Unicode (UTF-8)
now on my system.

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