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<p>Undisputedly, slavic languages have had a considerable influence on german and the attitudes towards multilingualism in austria. This article portrays theoretical reflections, new findings and innovative methodological approaches to the reconstruction of historical language contact between slavic languages and austrian varieties of german. These approaches were jointly developed within the task cluster on language contact of the austrian special research programme “german in austria. Variation – contact – perception”. In this context, the implications of historical and recent slavic-german multilingualism on german in austria are of special interest. The paper concludes with an overview of preliminary research results, methodological lessons learnt and considerations for further sociolinguistic research in historical contexts.</p>
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Undisputedly, slavic languages have had a considerable influence on german and the attitudes towards multilingualism in austria. This article portrays theoretical reflections, new findings and innovative methodological approaches to the reconstruction of historical language contact between slavic languages and austrian varieties of german. These approaches were jointly developed within the task cluster on language contact of the austrian special research programme “german in austria. Variation – contact – perception”. In this context, the implications of historical and recent slavic-german multilingualism on german in austria are of special interest. The paper concludes with an overview of preliminary research results, methodological lessons learnt and considerations for further sociolinguistic research in historical contexts.

Reconstructing historical language contact between Slavic languages and Austrian varieties of German: theoretical assumptions, methodological approaches and general results

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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Undisputedly, slavic languages have had a considerable influence on german and the attitudes towards multilingualism in austria. This article portrays...

Reconstructing historical language contact between Slavic languages and Austrian varieties of German: theoretical assumptions, methodological approaches and general results

Published Online: Feb 02, 2024

Page range: 645 - 660

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2024-0016

Keywords
historical language contact, slavic languages, german in austria, historical sociolinguistics, contact linguistics

© 2024 Stefan Michael Newerkla, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Reconstructing historical language contact between Slavic languages and Austrian varieties of German: theoretical assumptions, methodological approaches and general results

Published Online: Feb 02, 2024

Page range: 645 - 660

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2024-0016

Keywordshistorical language contact, slavic languages, german in austria, historical sociolinguistics, contact linguistics

© 2024 Stefan Michael Newerkla, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
historical language contact, slavic languages, german in austria, historical sociolinguistics, contact linguistics