Simon Pröll
List of John Benjamins publications for which Simon Pröll plays a role.
Articles
2021 Areal microvariation in German-speaking urban areas (Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna) Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics, Ziegler, Arne, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer (eds.), pp. 227–252 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on spatial and social variation in the colloquial everyday speech of three German-speaking urban areas. The basic question is whether geographical variation (the kind that is commonly observed in studies on dialect variation in large areas) is detectable in the reported… read more
2019 Analyzing language change through a formalist framework Morphological Variation: Theoretical and empirical perspectives, Dammel, Antje and Oliver Schallert (eds.), pp. 63–94 | Chapter
This article serves as a case study on using formal morphological models to analyze systematic language change processes in inflectional morphology. By drawing on data from four Germanic varieties at two points in time (Old Swedish, Övdalian, Old High German and Visperterminen Alemannic) and… read more
2012 Using fuzzy clustering to reveal recurring spatial patterns in corpora of dialect maps International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17:2, pp. 176–197 | Article
In this article, a new method to identify groups of spatially similar dialect maps is presented. This is done by comparing statistical properties of the maps: the empirical covariance is measured for every map in a corpus of dialect maps. Then, the Fuzzy C-Means clustering method is applied to… read more