Österreichische, böhmische und Prager Standards des Deutschen um 1900. ,K. u. k. Wörterbücher‘ und ihr Potential bei der diachronen Bestimmung regionaler Schriftsprachlichkeit
Austrian, Bohemian and Prague German Standards around 1900. ‘K. u. k. Dictionaries’ and their Potential in Diachronic Determination of Regional Standard Languages

Summary/Abstract: By means of the German used in Prague the paper outlines a new methodological approach to investigate the standard issue of East-Central/ South Eastern European city languages around 1900. The research is based on the corpus of the prose manuscripts of the ‘model writer’ Franz Kafka edited in the Critical Kafka Edition (S. Fischer). In this paper Ulrich Ammon’s model of standard varieties is used for the first time to answer diachronic questions. This approach focuses on contemporary German standard and dialect dictionaries published in the German Empire, the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy and the South Slavic and Rumanian territories outside Austria which represent the key medium to delimit the regional standard compatibility of selected special phenomena found among articles, gender and plural forms of nouns, prepositions and adjunctions as well as within the phraseology and semantics of Kafka’s German. Apart from common Austrian characteristics these phenomena are a proof for the existence of a special Bohemian respectively Prague standard of German including also elements that may be related to language contact (Bohemisms).

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