Papers by Matthias Grünert
This chapter deals with the two Romance languages which are officially recognized as minority lan... more This chapter deals with the two Romance languages which are officially recognized as minority languages of Switzerland, Romansh and Italian, and with Francoprovençal and French dialects spoken marginally in the francophone area of Switzerland. Romansh, the language that has gained new recognition in the process leading to the quadrilingual Swiss Confederation, is considered in most detail. The comparison of the Romance minorities shows the different starting conditions from which they have developed and the various initiatives undertaken to organize them at private and state levels. The last decades have been characterized by concerns about maintaining language territories, development of mass media in minority languages as well as promotion of minority languages in education. The trend towards a more ethnolinguistic conception of Switzerland has recently been counterbalanced by the greater attention paid to the promotion of minority languages outside their traditional areas
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Der Beitrag nimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme von Konstituentenfolgen in verschiedenen Typen eingeleite... more Der Beitrag nimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme von Konstituentenfolgen in verschiedenen Typen eingeleiteter Nebensätze im Bündnerromanischen vor, die bisher kaum beschrieben worden sind. Im Bündnerromanischen gilt die Verbzweitstellung nicht nur im Hauptsatz, sondern auch im Kompletiv- und im Adverbialsatz, womit die für das Deutsche charakteristische Asymmetrie zwischen Hauptsatz- und Nebensatzkonstituentenfolge (Verbzweit- vs. Verbendstellung) wegfällt. In der älteren Sprache lässt sich allerdings regional eine Tendenz zur Verbendstellung im Nebensatz beobachten, die auf deutschen Einfluss zurückzuführen ist und auf die Schriftsprache beschränkt sein dürfte. Während in den rheinischen Varietäten die Verbzweitstellung strikt gilt, kennt das Engadinische sowohl im Haupt- als auch im Nebensatz die Verbdrittstellung. Ausser Kraft gesetzt wird die Verbzweitstellungsregel in allen Varietäten bei verkürzten Spaltsätzen, sowohl innerhalb von Hauptsätzen als auch innerhalb von Nebensätzen. Ein in...
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
The Raeto-Romance varieties, which are spoken in noncontiguous areas reaching from the Grison Alp... more The Raeto-Romance varieties, which are spoken in noncontiguous areas reaching from the Grison Alps in Switzerland to the Italian Adriatic coast near the Slovenian border, are characterized by considerable differences from one another at the lexical level. Hence, when describing the Raeto-Romance lexicon, it is important to pay particular attention to which lexical types occur in which main varieties (i.e., in Romansh of Grisons, Dolomitic Ladin and Friulian, secondarily also in subvarieties). The mentioned spatial perspective intersects the chronological perspective that aims at presenting the components of different origin entering the Raeto-Romance varieties in different periods. The pre-Roman lexicon is of rather small extent and contains especially terms of flora, fauna, terrain, farming, tools, and equipment. Within the Latin stratum, the lexicon inherited from late Latin, Romance formations (on the basis of elements of Latin origin) and borrowings from Latin have to be disting...
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Methods in Contemporary Linguistics, 2012
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Ladinia, 2018
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A. Einleitung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 B. Die inn... more A. Einleitung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 B. Die innere Variation der Sprache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 C. Die Mehrsprachigkeit der Ratoromanisch Sprechenden . . . . . . . . . . 62 D. Einstellungen zu den Sprachen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 E. Schluss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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Bundnerromanische Schriftnormen. Volkssprachliche und neolateinische Ausrichtungen in Romanischbu... more Bundnerromanische Schriftnormen. Volkssprachliche und neolateinische Ausrichtungen in Romanischbunden zwischen der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts und den 1930er Jahren
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The city of Chur is the capital of Grisons, the only trilingual canton in Switzerland. Our study ... more The city of Chur is the capital of Grisons, the only trilingual canton in Switzerland. Our study investigates to what extent the city of Chur is plurilingual, with regard to the three indigenous languages, i.e. German, Romansh and Italian. German is the main language of the canton as well as of Chur. Hence, we examine the use of the minority languages in monolingual families (both parents are Romansh or Italian speaking) and bilingual families (one parent Romansh or Italian, the other German), paying special attention to which language is transmitted from one generation to the next. Furthermore, we show the various possibilities of receiving bilingual education and we scrutinise the motives why parents opt for or against it. Finally, we explore to what extent associations for members (?) of the minorities and the cantonal administration, where people from all over the canton are engaged, provide an opportunity to use the minority languages.
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