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Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Beat Siebenhaar
[Studies in Language Variation 19] 2017
► pp. 199–214

Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas

VerbaAlpina and the challenges of digital humanities (DH)

| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

This chapter presents the research project VerbaAlpina funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project investigates the specific Alpine lexis in the multilingual Alpine region where different dialects and languages from the Germanic, Romance and Slavic language families are spoken. This chapter focuses on the methodology used to transfer analogue data from traditional linguistic atlases and dictionaries into a digital format. The method used enables, for the first time, the representation and comparison of traditional geolinguistic data within a digital and multilingual research environment open to the public realm.

Keywords: Alpine lexis, Alpine region, beta code, digitisation, digital humanities, geolinguistics, Germanic, Romance, Slavic, multilingual, transcription systems
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.VerbaAlpina – the investigation of a multilingual region
    • 2.1The Alpine region as an area under investigation
    • 2.2A selective and analytical exploration of the Alpine region
    • 2.3The transition from traditional to modern geolinguistics
  • 3.Methodology: How to combine different projects
    • 3.1Different projects with different aims
    • 3.2The structure of the map content
      • 3.2.1Structuring the data within the database
      • 3.2.2The basic type: A category for historical linguistic analysis
    • 3.3The conversion of the transcription systems
      • 3.3.1 Step 1: From analogue to digital data using a beta code
      • 3.3.2Step 2: From beta code to IPA characters
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 July 2017
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