Digital Network of German Dialect Dictionaries

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Digital Network of German Dialect Dictionaries

• www.dwv.uni-trier.de

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Dictionaries of Southwestern German Dialects
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Dictionaries of Southwestern German Dialects

• Rhenish Dictionary, 9 vols (1928-1971)
• Palatine Dictionary, 6 vols (1965-1997)
• Lorraine Dictionary, 1 vol (1909)
• Alsatian Dictionary, 2 vols (1899-1907)

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Palatine Dictionary Brombeere (Vol 1,
1245-1246)

• Alsatian Dictionary
• Brambeer
• (Vol 2, 77)

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A typical collation protocol

A typical collation protocol (beginning of the
entry Brombeere in the Palatine Dictionary)
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A sample of an SGML

A sample of an SGML-tagged TUSTEP file
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The internetversion

The internet version of the Palatine
Dictionary
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Interlinking the dictionaries ...
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• The explicit references in the Palatine
  Dictionary
• 25,000 references to the Rhenish Dictionary
• 11,000 to the Alsatian Dictionary
• 7,000 to the Lorraine Dictionary
• 1,000 to the Middle High German Dictionary
• 2,500 to the German Dictionary of Jacob and
  Wilhelm Grimm.

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The graphical interface of the interactive
linking tool
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The non-explicit linking
Scheme of four dictionaries interlinked via the
interactive digital linking tool
Palatine Dict.
Rhenish Dict.

Alsatian Dict.
Lorraine Dict.
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Results of the onomasiological interlinking
Lorraine Dict. Bräm Brimber Brombier Bräcke Müre
Palatine Dict. Brombeer(e) Brummelbeer(e) Schwarzb
eer(e) Dornbeer(e) Heckenbeer(e) Heckenpräumche Ka
tzentape Moz
Rhen. Dict. Brame More Brombeer(e) Schmärzbeer(e)
Heckenbeer(e) Schmierbatten P(f)erdsbeer(e) Wosch
bert Hundsbeer(e)

• Brombeere

Alsatian Dict. Brambeer Bromert Bräme Bromele Blom
ber Brom Bachbeer(e)
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The non-explicit linking
Scheme of four dictionaries interlinked with the
hyperlemmalist
Palatine Dict.
Rhenish Dict.

Hyperlemmalist
Alsatian Dict.
Lorraine Dict.
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The printed dialect maps

Brombeere (Palatine Dictionary)
Brombeere (Rhenish Dictionary)
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Thank you !Dank U wel !

• Niels Bohnert M.A.
• bohn2501_at_uni-trier.de
• Marco Brösch
• broe3201_at_uni-trier.de
• www.dwv.uni-trier.de