Dialectometric concepts of space: Towards a variant-based dialectometry
Dialectometric concepts of space: Towards a variant-based dialectometry
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空间方言测量概念:走向基于变体的方言测量
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2012
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J. Rumpf
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S. Pickl;J. Rumpf
Outlining the development of quantitative methods in dialectology, especially dialectometry, we show that the conventional approaches are characterized by an exclusive focus on varieties. This is due to a “lectbased” concept of linguistic space. We argue that a different approach, taking into account the individual distributions of single variants of a geolinguistic corpus, is not only possible, but desirable as a complement to the traditional approach. By introducing a statistical method that allows us to classify linguistic variables according to their distributional patterns, we illustrate this “variant-based” approach. This method may reveal as yet unknown associations between those variables, while at the same time demonstrating the feasibility and the potential of an alternative quantitative approach to linguistic variation in space.