Language, or Dialect, That Is the Question. How Attitudes Affect Language Statistics Using the Example of Low German by Astrid Adler

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‘De jeleada, de vekjeada’: transnationalism, history, and the schooling of Low German Mennonites of Canada and Mexico by Sneath, R

“…<p>This study is a multi-sited historical ethnography about the schooling of Low German Mennonites (LGM) in Canada and Mexico, two nations with sizeable LGM populations and that have significant transnational connections. …”

“Caint na ndaoine”. The Irish Language as a Precedent for Standardisation by Carlo James Waskowski Ritchie

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Das Engelhusvokabular. Lexikographie, Diktat und Lateinunterricht im Spätmittelalter by Bunselmeier, J

Subjects: “…Middle Low German…”

Eine empirische Studie zum syntaktischen Status der niederdeutschen Pseudokoordination by Nobuharu Kakuchi

“…To explain its syntactic behaviour, this article hypothesizes that the pseudocoordination in Low German does not involve complementation and that aspectual verbs in Low German can stand independently. …”
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A Long-Lasting CofP of New and Native Speakers—Practices, Identities of Belonging and Motives for Participation by Birte Arendt

“…Within sociolinguistic research on small languages like Low German, differentiation into new and native speakers has become established. …”
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Reimprosa und Codeswitching. Zur Rhetorik mittelniederdeutscher Andachtstexte by Lahnemann, HM

“…The paper examines Middle Low German devotional texts through an analysis of their rhetorical and linguistic arrangement. …”

Agenda, Einfluss, Reichweiten: Buchdruck und Frömmigkeit in Lübeck um 1500 by Wiechmann, M-B

“…Its production is characterised by an exceptionally high proportion of religious writing and an equally high proportion of literature in the Middle Low German vernacular. These works were aimed at a steadily expanding audience, especially a pious lay public, which at that time was increasingly striving for religious participation. …”

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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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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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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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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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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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. …”

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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