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Lexicography of Language Contact: An Internet Dictionary of Words of German Origin in Tok Pisin
(2016)
The paper presents an ongoing project in the domain of lexicography of language contact, namely, the “Internet Dictionary of Words of German Origin in Tok Pisin”. The German influence onto the lexicon of the main pidgin language of Papua New Guinea has its roots in the German colonial empire, where Tok Pisin played an important role as a lingua franca in the colony of German New Guinea. Tok Pisin also served as an intermediate language for many borrowing processes; that is, German loans entered many languages in the South Pacific via Tok Pisin. The Internet Dictionary of Words of German Origin in Tok Pisin is based on all available lexicographical sources from the early 20th century up to now. These sources are systematically evaluated within our project; the results will be documented in the dictionary. The microstructure of the dictionary will be presented with respect to its major features: documentation of sources, examples for word usage, audio files, and lexicographic comment.
Names in competition: A corpus-based quantitative investigation into the use of colonial place names
(2016)
Referentially equivalent toponyms occur very often in colonial and postcolonial contexts. These names are in competition, and this competition is reflected in language use and in changing frequencies of use in large corpora. The main theoretical and methodological assumption of this paper is that corpus frequencies of referentially equivalent toponyms change according to particular patterns, and that the Google Ngram Corpora and Google Ngram Viewers can be used to detect these patterns. The aims of this paper are twofold: firstly, a corpus-linguistic method for investigations into the use of names will be presented, applied, and critically evaluated; secondly, it will be shown that the correlation between patterns of frequency changes and patterns of socio-historical colonial and postcolonial events gives rise to cross-linguistic generalizations, for example, that an increase in public interest in a place strongly promotes one of the referenlially equivalent names, or that in renaming scenarios colonial toponyms in relation to new toponyms remain in stronger use in the language of the former colonial power than in languages of other colonial powers.
Internetwörterbücher können viele Informationstypen auf neuartige Weise vereinigen und nutzeradaptiv präsentieren. Sie bilden in vernetzter Form als „Megawörterbücher“ große Wörterbuchportale und verschmelzen mit Korpora, multimedialen Erweiterungen und automatischen Sprachanalysetools zu Wortschatzinformationssystemen neuer Art. Es ist daher schwierig geworden, zwischen einen Wörterbuch einem Korpus, einem Atlas und einer Frequenzliste zu unterscheiden. Die Autoren versuchen, ein wenig Licht in das Dunkel der verschiedenen Typen von Wörterbüchern, Wörterbuchportalen und Wortschatzinformationssystemen zu bringen, und dabei auch zeigen, dass sich die Unordnung, die eine „Schlöraffe“ in die Klassifikation des Tierreichs bringt, am Ende durchaus auszahlen kann.