Schleswig – a region of longitudinal language contact by Elin Fredsted

“…Examples of different aspects of convergences are presented, covering mainly convergences from the North Germanic regional language of South Jutish to West Germanic varieties (Low German, North Frisian, and Standard German regiolect), and from Standard German to the Standard Danish variety spoken by members of the Danish minority on the German side of the border since 1920. …”
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The Case of Deutschland 83: Global Internet-Distributed Television and its Effects on Local Viewing Behavior and Industry Practices by Kristina Brüning

“…This article examines the German drama series Deutschland 83 and its unexpectedly low German viewership as a case study. Highlighting the benefit of integrating audience research into analyses of shifting industrial practices, this article illuminates the complexities of negotiating local tastes in an era of global content flows. …”
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What’s in <em>JAPAS</em> 9(1) and Who Should Read It? Reconceptualizing Amish and Plain Anabaptist Culture through the Voices of Its People by Cory Anderson

“…Roslyn Burns seeks evidence among the Low German/Russian Mennonites for how historical, spatial, and religious contexts influence speech patterns, finding strong evidence especially for religious influence. …”
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ETHNOGRAFISCHE ONLINE-ARCHIVE ALS PARÖMIOLOGISCHES WERKZEUG by Christoph Schmitt

“…The case study is WossiDiA, which presents the exensive (Low German language based) regional ethnographic collection of Mecklenburgʼs field-worker Richard Wossidlo (1859-1939). …”
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Types of abbreviations in terms of shipbuilding in Germanic and Slavic languages by Bespamyatnaya Liliya Vladimirovna

“…Among three types chosen as a basis for classification of abbreviation (component, complex, initial), all three types are represented only in terms of shipbuilding in German languages, although their productivity is low. German and Slavic languages reveal some similar features, which are reflected in the quantitative predominance of complex abbreviations with reduced initial part of the original (generating) words / phrases. …”
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German Loans in Early English by Ulrich Busse

“…Methodologically, the term German will be used in the sense of High German and its antecedents rather than Low German or Low Dutch. As a consequence of this approach, the impact of German on the English language during these periods is rather small in terms of numbers, but interesting and varied as far as domains of borrowing, transmission routes of words, linguistic strategies (i.e. importation v. substitution), and mode of transmission (i.e. written v. spoken) are concerned.…”
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Hydronyms of Klaipėda Region of Unclear Etiology: Ketvergio upalis, Neknupis, Plocis, Rikinė, Župė / Župis by Rolandas Kregždys

“…The above-mentioned variants Szopis etc., due to the vocal element -o-, can evidently be related to Middle Low German substantive soppe, sope ‘soup, broth’. The authentic Lithuanian form *Sriuba is reconstructed, cf. hydronym Sriùbupis (from the area of Lowlanders) originated from Lithuanian substantive sriubà ‘pottage; bouillabaisse etc.’.  …”
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Sociocultural Change and the Development of Vernacular Languages in Early Modern Europe by Oliver Currie

“…The languages covered include not only languages which were official or hegemonic in emerging European nation states – English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch – but also peripheral languages such as Slovene, Irish, Welsh, Scots, Low German, Catalan and Franco-Provençal. Several of the articles in this issue also focus on more than one vernacular language, exploring competition or contact between Latin and vernacular languages or between different vernacular languages and cultures. …”
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Wahrnehmungs- und variationslinguistische Arbeiten zur Regionalsprache by Robert Langhanke, Juliane Limper, Lars Vorberger, Sarah Kwekkeboom

“…The volume concludes with three variationist linguistic studies, which scrutinize regional and intergenerational differences in lenis plosives before sonorant, the pseudo-coordination of two verb forms in the Low German dialects of Schleswig-Holstein in comparison to other languages and the use of phraseologisms by different generations in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area. …”
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Correspondence of Consonant Clustering with Particular Vowels in German Dialects by Samantha Link

“…Furthermore, it was found that this threefold pattern seems to have evolved from an originally twofold pattern (short monophthong prefers coda clusters and long monophthong and diphthong prefer onset clusters) in Middle High and Low German. This result is then further considered under the aspect of the compensation of the syllable weight and moraicity. …”
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Morphosyntactic innovations in linguistic border zones: Evidence from Northern Germany and Eastern Poland by Lars Behnke

“…This paper focuses on two such constructions from two distant border zones: a) the innovative use of the preposition dla ‘for’ in Eastern Polish dialects in the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian-Ukrainian border zone, where these constructions appear in dative contexts that are reserved to the dative only outside the border zone, and b) the innovative use of the conjunction un ‘and’ in Low German varieties in the Danish-German border zone, where it combines with the infinitive in many functional settings. …”
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Zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit: lettische Rufnamen in der Revision von 1638 by Renāte Siliņa-Piņķe

“…For instance, the name Šķērsts (< Middle Low German Kersten < Christian) in the revision appears as Skärst(h), Skerst(e) and Skierst (namely, transcriptions of the Latvianized version) as well as Kerste and Kersten (replaced by its German equivalent). …”
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A little-known source about the initial stage of Mongol penetration into Crimean Gothia by Kuzenkov Pavel V., Mogarichev Yurii М.

“…Torquatus), who compared the language of the Crimean Goths specifically with the Saxon (Low German) dialect of the German language, is of the value.…”
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The "Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms" and its European concept by Deutsch, A

“…Despite its name: Right from the beginning the DRW was not only supposed to be a dictionary of German legal terms, but of all West Germanic languages and dialects (for example: Lombardic, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Low German, High German). Therefore - among others - Old English legal terms are still subject of the lexicographical work. …”

Vernacularisation of Documentary Legal Texts in Northern Europe by Anna D. Havinga

“…In the text from Lübeck, on the other hand, the shift from Latin to Low German was largely completed within about 30 years. …”
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Kontakt a zmiana językowa w ujęciu DCxG. Historia analitycznej strony biernej w języku szwedzkim by Dominika Skrzypek, Marta Woźnicka

“…In the 1400s we find first attestations of the construction with a new auxiliary, bli, a lexical loan from Middle Low German, originally borrowed with the lexical meaning ‘remain’. …”
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Valentin and his Wild Brother in European Literature: How French is a Medieval French Romance? by Lydia Zeldenrust, Sofia Lodén

“…The different versions of the tale are generally divided into two strands: the first covers versions in Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Middle High German, and Old Swedish, and the second includes versions in French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Icelandic, and Yiddish. …”
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Brief Description of German and Other Germanic Language Varieties on the Territory of Wallonia by E. S. Alekseenko, L. A. Ulianitckaia

“…In an attempt of linguistic identification of Plattdütsch, the Germanic language varieties of East Cantons have been reviewed, the role of Low German dialects (Plattdeutsch) in the evolvement of German-speaking regions in Belgium has been analyzed. …”
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(raie)lank peegeldab aega ja selle lugu by Lembit Vaba

“…It is probably a German loan, cf. Middle Low German planke, German Planke ‘a thick board, a plank’. …”
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The Contested History of a Book: The German Bible of the Later Middle Ages and Reformation in Legend, Ideology, and Scholarship by Andrew C. Gow

“…The wide distribution and availability of German and other vernacular Bible translations in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with 22 printed full Bible translations into German/Low German/Netherlandish appearing before Luther’s famous Bible translation, has been known to scholars since at least the early eighteenth century, when various works on German Bibles before the Reformation began to appear. …”
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