Linguistic Atlases

• Published in: The Handbook of Dialectology pp. 57 - 72
• Main Author: Kretzschmar, William A
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, NJ, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 04.12.2017
• Subjects: American linguistic atlas effort; American structuralism; geographic information systems; language variation studies; linguistic atlas surveys; linguistic theory; map collections

This chapter focuses mostly on the American linguistic atlas effort, but the principles explained apply to many atlases. The idea for linguistic atlases was born in the nineteenth century among the Neogrammarians, at the very beginning of modern linguistics as a field of study. Before World War II,...