28.3771, FYI: Kleiner Niederländischer Sprachatlas (KNSA)

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Subject: 28.3771, FYI: Kleiner Niederländischer Sprachatlas (KNSA)

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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:44:37
From: Jeffrey Pheiff [pheiff at staff.uni-marburg.de]
Subject: Kleiner Niederländischer Sprachatlas (KNSA)

 
We are happy to announce the publication and availability of a new linguistic
atlas entitled “Kleiner Niederländischer Sprachatlas unter Einschluss des
Westfriesischen” (KNSA). 

Werner Veith (1940–2009) and Lutz Hummel authored the atlas, which grew out of
an earlier atlas called the “Kleiner Deutscher Sprachatlas” (KDSA). The KNSA
was published posthumously in cooperation between Lutz Hummel and the Research
Center Deutscher Sprachatlas at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. The
questionnaire forms containing the translations of Wenker sentences serve as
the data basis for the atlas. These questionnaires were distributed in Belgium
and the Netherlands in the 1920’s and 1930’s, respectively. 

The online publication of the KNSA includes

- 374 linguistic maps (161 vowel maps, 136 consonant maps, 27 morphological,
and 50 lexical maps)
- One base map
- Various meta-data (e.g. the map type, the context of elicitation, a
reference to comparable maps from the KDSA or the KNSA itself, the mapped
variable as well as the original plotter file in the form of a pdf-file)
- 450 locations spread out evenly through the Netherlands, Belgium, and the
northwest of France
- Automatic frequency counts of each of the variants on each map
- An introductory manuscript containing information on the data basis, the
processing of said data, information on technical aspects as well as a
discussion of the status of the atlas in relation to other Dutch linguistic
atlas projects (such as the RND, FAND, and MAND). The manuscript can be
accessed via the following link:
https://www.regionalsprache.de/Onlinepublikationen/KNSA_Manuskript.pdf

This manuscript also provides links to the appropriate maps in the atlas.

Additionally, the publication of the maps on REDE allows for the comparison to
other linguistic atlases, either to other Dutch atlases (e.g. “Fränkischer
Sprachatlas” or the “Dialektatlas Westmünsterland – Achterhoek – Liemers –
Niederrhein “) or to German atlases (e.g. Georg Wenker’s “Sprachatlas des
Deutschen Reichs ”). What is more, REDE’s user interface provides cartographic
tools for users either to remap the data according to their own needs, or to
import additional data into the system to compare the already existing KNSA
maps to user-generated maps. 

The atlas is useful for linguists working in the fields of historical
linguistics and variation linguistics (e.g. dialectology and regional language
research). The atlas is available free of charge in the form of digital vector
maps over the research platform Regionalsprache.de (REDE).

Citation:
Werner H. Veith, Lutz Hummel (2017): Kleiner Niederländischer Sprachatlas
(KNSA) unter Einschluss des Westfriesischen. I. Einleitung und Kommentar von
Werner H. Veith und Lutz Hummel, II. Sprachkarten. In REDE bearbeitet von
Dennis Bock, Jeffrey Pheiff, Anna Wolańska und Jürg Fleischer. In: Jürgen
Erich Schmidt / Joachim Herrgen / Roland Kehrein (Hrsg.): REGIONALSPRACHE.DE
(REDE). Marburg: Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography
                     Morphology
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     Frisian, Western (fry)

Language Family(ies): Germanic





 



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