Zur Etablierung der deutsch-niederländischen Staatsgrenze als Dialektgrenze im Nordniedersächsischen: Sprachliches Wissen, Wahrnehmung linguistischer Laien oder beides?

Dialects in general are losing more and more their genuine structures, meaning the structure of the dialect has increasingly overtaken some standard variety structures. Such changes, however, were as well observed in border dialects, for example Low-German and Dutch ones (see Kremer 1979 and Giesbers 2008 and Smits 2011). The German and Dutch standard variety to those the dialects have adverged are that different in their structure that the dialects now diverge among themselves at some regions across the border. This process led to the fact, that the state border between the Netherlands and Ge... Mehr ...