Abstract
Against the backdrop of the pluricentricity of German, this paper deals with standard variation at the lexical level in the German-speaking Community of Belgium, also known as East Belgium. After a short discussion of some important concepts such as standard varieties, variants, variables and language centres, a pilot corpus study conducted in the digital archives of the East-Belgian newspaper GrenzEcho will be presented. The aim of this study is to determine the occurrence of potential East-Belgian variants in the newspaper, as well as their frequencies of use as compared to other lexemes.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ConSOLE XXXI |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 31 st Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (22-24 February 2023, Bielefeld University) |
Editors | Iva Kovač, Paul Meisenbichler, Atefeh Shahbazi, Hadis Tamleh, Maximilian Wiesner |
Place of Publication | Leiden |
Publisher | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics |
Chapter | 5 |
Pages | 69 - 92 |
Volume | 31 |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |