Ausgewählte Präsensformen und Infinitive in den deutschen Mundarten Mährens und Schlesiens
Selected Present Tense Forms and Infinitives in the German Dialects of Moravia and Silesia

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate selected word forms (infinitives and certain verb forms in the present tense) in terms of their morphemic structure in the dialect space of German dialects in Moravia and Silesia. The description of the state of the art enables conclusions to be drawn regarding the dialectal affiliation of individual dialect areas. In the foreground of our interest were those verb forms that were not the subject of description in the „Atlas of German dialects in the Czech Republic (2014–2020), Volume V Morphologie, 2020“ / „Atlas der deutschen Mundarten in Tschechien 2014–2020, Band V Morphologie, 2020“. The research showed that the language islands in South and Central Moravia (Brno language island, Vyškov language island, Jihlava language island) are strongly influenced by Bavarian dialects. North Moravia (Austrian Silesia), which is characterised by the presence of East Central German elements, can be described as a counterpart. However, it cannot be said that the dominance of East-Central German features is absolute in the area in question, since in some localities there is an increase in Central Bavarian linguistic features. The Hřebeč region (the largest language island in Moravia) occupies a special position, attracting attention with its numerous East Franconian phenomena. A typically Hřebeč dialectal symptom is the diphthongisation of the Central High German ´i´ and ´u´, which is not found at all in the German dialects of Bohemia and Moravia, except in Hřebeč (Schönhengst). Very often this diphthongization is attested in personal pronouns (see Muzikant 2014: 120–135). In our material, diphthongs appear in the 1st and 3rd person sg. of the verb sein.

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