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Orts- und Ortsbewohnerbezeichnungen in den ehemaligen deutschen Mundarten Mährens und Mährisch-Schlesiens

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Title in English Names of Places and Their Inhabitans in Former German Dialects in Moravia and Silesia
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ROTHENHAGEN Richard

Year of publication 2011
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Germanistische Linguistik im interdisziplinären Gefüge II
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Faculty of Education

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Field Linguistics
Keywords local names; German; dialect; Moravia; Silesia
Description This article refers to a part of the international project "German Dialects in Moravia and Moravian-Silesia." The following linguistic features are discussed: the divergence in the pronunciation of toponyms; pronunciation of the common-noun part of a proper name [dorf]; the gender and the usage of an article with a toponym; the usage of prepositions as well as some atypical inhabitant names.
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