The History of Mecklenburgs Regional Language after the Second World War.Contact of Varieties between the Native Population and German Refugees

超过1200万讲德语的人被迫从中欧和东欧的家园迁移，这不仅对那里的德语品种产生了严重影响，而且还带来了一种全新的、高度复杂的德语品种接触，无论他们在哪里定居。该研究项目以梅克伦堡一个明确界定的地区为重点，将首次系统地考虑到难民融入新家园地区的语言后果。这代表了对20世纪世纪德语历史的一种创新观点。城市、小城镇和乡村三个社会共同体将重构地方交往空间中的复杂多样的星座。从战争到今天的几十年里，品种的等级谱发生了变化。除了从社会语言学，实用和感性方面的语言发展开始于1945年，结构变化将分析与低德国，区域梅克伦堡标准品种和品种的起源，难民带来了他们。历时研究是基于对90名被调查者的详细访谈。他们每个人都接受了采访，关于他们的传记和他们的语言传记。此外，他们还被要求进行几项语言测试。举报人中有四个群体：1920年代和1930年代出生的难民，1950年后在梅克伦堡出生的难民后代，以及梅克伦堡本地人口的相应年龄组。传记和元语言数据与方言和区域标准变体的实际语言使用的施为数据相关。语言表现的受访者进行了检查的频率分析的典型语音和形态句法特征。这使得一个准确的评估不同品种之间的收敛过程。

The forced migration of more than 12 million German speaking people from their former homes in Central and Eastern Europe did not only have serious impact on the varieties spoken there but it also brought about an entirely new and highly complex contact of German varieties wherever they settled. Focusing on a clearly defined region in Mecklenburg, the research project will for the first time take into account systematically the linguistic consequences of the refugees integration into their new home region. This represents an innovative perspective on the German language history of the 20th century. The complex constellations of varieties within the local communication spaces will be reconstructed according to the three social communities of city, small town and village. The shifts taking place in the hierarchical spectrum of varieties will be examined in the decades from the war until today. Apart from the sociolinguistic, pragmatic and perceptual aspects of the language development beginning in 1945, the structural changes will be analysed with respect to Low German, the regional Mecklenburg standard variety and the varieties of origin that the refugees brought with them. The diachronic research is empirically based on detailed interviews with 90 informants. Each of them were interviewed with respect to their biography and their language biography. Additionally, they were asked to do several language tests. There are four groups among the informants: refugees born in the 1920s and 1930s, their descendants already born in Mecklenburg after 1950 and both the respective age groups of the native Mecklenburg population. The biographical and metalinguistic data are correlated with the performative data about the actual language use of dialects and of the regional standard varieties. The language performance of the interviewed is examined by a frequency analysis of exemplary phonetic and morphosyntactic features. This allows for an exact evaluation of the convergency processes between the different varieties.