Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a minor role in the field of social dialectology, the study of regional and social variation, the last decade has seen a methodological revival. This book… read more
This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian… read more
Historical Lexicographers, like other linguists, are accustomed to viewing their craft as an objective activity. There are limits to this goal, however. This contribution presents some challlenges at the examples of Standard Canadian English and Standard Austrian German. Standard Canadian… read more
This paper introduces the use of a historical dictionary as a linguistic resource. This dictionary, the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Second Edition (Dollinger & Fee 2017) affords a new real-time perspective on the Canadian vocabulary. As it is based on an empirical,… read more
This chapter introduces a new resource, the Petworth Emigration to Canada Corpus (PECC), which consists of some 90,000 words of letters from Southern English emigrants to Canada in the 1830s. Empirically, the chapter addresses the change from first person shall to will in a multi-variety… read more
The study of Canadian English has, for the most part, relied on synchronic data and description. Via the apparent-time method and earlier linguistic studies, evidence is available for the most part of the twentieth century. This paper provides possible pathways towards examining pre-twentieth… read more
Eberhard Kranzmayer is arguably Austria’s most influential German dialectologist. The present article traces Kranzmayer’s Nazi years (NSDAP member number 8,061.495) in archival sources in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Klagenfurt and Berlin. This account reconstructs Kranzmayer’s role in the Nazi machine,… read more
