The Slovene Dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria

Pronk, Tijmen

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“…A prominent case of a structure‐preserving conservative variety in a mountain environment is Resian, a variety of Slovene which is spoken in the Resian valley of the eastern Italian alps, where it “was cut off from linguistic developments” (Steinicke et al, 2011:7). This and other isolated Slovene dialects, such as that of the Gail valley in Austria (Pronk, 2009), have some innovations that are not found in other varieties of Slovene, but characteristically also preserve archaisms which have been lost elsewhere in Slovenian (Pronk, 2009). On the dialectal level, a greater conservativeness of mountain speech is reported for Balinese (Clynes, 1995:495) and Puerto Rican Spanish (Holmquist, 2011:232); the typically more archaic nature of hill languages of Zomia (DeLancey, 2014:54) is another illustration of the same tendency.…”

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Mountain linguistics

Urban

2020

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Language use in mountainous areas often exhibits special social dynamics. This contribution sketches some of the most salient patterns of language use in upland Southeast Asia ,the greater Himalayas, the Caucasus, the Central Andes, the New Guinea highlands, and touches upon the Alps and some highland areas of Africa and North America. Accumulated over long time, such patterns of use yield particular—often highly diverse, fragmented, and discontinuous—distributions of languages and language families in geographical space the precise characteristics of which also depend on prevailing local sociolinguistic and socioeconomic conditions. Generalization are still difficult since most observations are anecdotal rather than systematic: as far as language structure is concerned, languages spoken in mountainous regions are traditionally often attributed a “conservative” or “archaic” character, preserving inherited traits and patterns that are lost elsewhere; the inaccessibility of the terrain and the resulting relative social isolation are commonly invoked to explain this situation. More recently, mountain languages have also been claimed to feature peaks in the distribution of some typological properties, whether due to sociogeographical factors or, more controversially, even direct influences of the environment: ejectives, grammatical encoding of elevational or topographic information, and overall high levels of structural complexity.

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Urban

2020

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“…The two existing descriptions of the western Gailtal dialect, Pronk (2009) and Neweklowsky (2013), make no mention of a venitive passive at all. There is, however, another productive auxiliary used for expressing the eventive passive, besides the future auxiliary bo, namely grotatə, from German geraten 'get into' (Neweklowsky 2013: 125).…”

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Slavic Alpine micro-varieties as part of an “Alpensprachbund”?

Pila

2021

STUF - Language Typology and Universals

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This chapter deals with some characteristics of two more-or-less isolated Slavic varieties in the south-eastern Alps: Resian and Carinthian Slovene, whose nearest relative among the Slavic standard languages is Slovene. Both have been for centuries in situations of total language contact with Romance and Germanic varieties. I will concentrate on the come passive. At least in Resian, it developed due to direct Romance influence, which could be claimed to be the overall reason for this grammatical feature in the Alps. The situation in Molise Slavic in southern Italy will serve as a point of comparison.

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“…Sadly, this is not the case (See Houtzagers 2013 about Burgenland Croatian.). Over the last 25 years, only two monographic descriptions of a Croatian dialect in Austria (Neweklowsky 1989, Mühl gaszner & Szucsich 2005 and two monographic descriptions of a Slovene dialect in Austria (Karničar 1990, Pronk 2009) have been published. Dialectal data have further been made available in a handful of articles and a few unpublished Diplomarbeiten, e.g., Krivograd 1996Krivograd , Černut 2008.…”

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“…The rich comparative lexicon of 64 pages contains over 1500 entries and regularly offers the corresponding forms from Paulsen 1935 andPronk 2009, often also from other Carinthian dialects and the Standard Language. The notation used in the lexicon is not always consistent, especially when there exists variation in pronunciation.…”

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Ocene / Reviews: Gerhard Neweklowsky: Der Gailtaler slowenische Dialekt: Feistritz an der Gail/Bistrica na Zilji und Hohenthurn/Straja vas. Unter Mitarbeit von Denise Branz, Christina Kircher-Zwittnig und Juruj Perč

The Slovene Dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria

Cited by 13 publications

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Mountain linguistics

Mountain linguistics

Slavic Alpine micro-varieties as part of an “Alpensprachbund”?

Ocene / Reviews: Gerhard Neweklowsky: Der Gailtaler slowenische Dialekt: Feistritz an der Gail/Bistrica na Zilji und Hohenthurn/Straja vas. Unter Mitarbeit von Denise Branz, Christina Kircher-Zwittnig und Juruj Perč

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