Philipps-University Marburg, Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas (DSA)

Text+ center: Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas

Type of center: data center/competence center

The Lingurep of the DSA is a repository for written data, audio files and pictorial data. It is focussed on data relating to regional variation of language, i.e. dialects, regional accents and colloquial language. Typical data types include language atlasses, language maps, audiomedial language documentation, questionnaires from language surveys, geospatial data and other linguistic and non-linguistic datasets. The temporal focus is on data from the early 19th century onwards.

Within Text+, this centre adds expertise in Lexical Resources and collaborates in training and development.

Highlights of provided data and services

• Erhebungsbögen des Deutschen Wortatlas: More than 52,000 dialect questionnaires regarding 200 German lexical items at the start of the 20th century
• Lego-Korpus: Corpus of informal German conversations obtained during construction tasks (audio files and corresponding transcripts)
• Old High German and Old Low German werden periphrases: Dataset of all hits for an infinitive verb form in combination with auxiliary werden obtained from the Old German reference corpus (ReA)
• Phonotactics of German Dialects (PhonD2): Documentation of phonotactic structures in the dialects of German on a microtypological level for the analysis of segment combination
• Sprachatlas der Rheinprovinz: 25 maps from Georg Wenker‘s language atlas mapping the dialects of the Rhine area in the late 1800s

Third-party data reception

Within Text+, the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas in Marburg particularly (but not exclusively) takes on data that fits within the areas of German dialectology and variationist linguistics as well as historical data sets with spatial reference.

Contact

Contact for Text+: Robert Engsterhold