Gwary Mazur wschodnich w XIX wieku (na podstawie ankiet Georga Wenkera do Niemieckiego atlasu językowego)
Local Dialects of Eastern Mazuria in the Nineteenth Century (on the Basis of Georg Wenker’s Questionnaire for the German Linguistic Atlas)

Author(s): Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
ISSN: 1230-1302
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: historical dialectology; linguistic geography; Mazurian dialects; dialectal atlases
Summary/Abstract: This book is devoted to the discussion of questionnaires for the German Linguistic Atlas (Deutscher Sprachatlas), designed by Georg Wenker (1852–1911), a librarian working in Marburg. The present study offers a linguistic analysis of replies to Wenker’s questionnaire collected in eighty locations in eastern Mazuria – the Ełk, Gołdap and Olecko districts. Although the questionnaire had been designed to explore German dialects, it was possible to identify Polish dialectal features and to conduct a partial reconstruction of the state of Mazurian dialects of Polish in the easternmost part of the historical province of East Prussia in the nineteenth century. Wenker’s survey material is a unique set of data from the period which provides a broad perspective on local dialects of eastern Mazuria, a peripheral area which had a limited contact with the general Polish language for a long time, did not have much connection with Polish cultural and political life, and was characterised by the penetration of the German language.

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