The present festschrift assembles articles from colleagues and friends of Gottfried Kolde on research issues representing his central concerns. The broad range of subjects is an apt reflection of Gottfried Kolde's own catholic research interests and his seminal work on noun determination and sociolinguistics. The contributions are in English, French, German and Italian, thus mirroring Kolde's refusal to limit himself to questions posed by German Studies alone and his interest in the phenomenon of languages in contact.

Der vorliegende Band versammelt BeitrAge zur Entstehung der deutschen Schriftsprache, wobei anhand von Texten aus dem deutschen und niederlAndischen Raum unterschiedliche Aspekte des Standardisierungsprozesses in der frA1/4hen Neuzeit erArtert werden. Die Diskussion um die Rolle von regionalen, textsortenspezifischen und sozialen Faktoren liefert neue sprachgeschichtliche Erkenntnisse.

On the basis of empirical material from interviews with 42 young speakers of Swiss German, the authors inquire whether it is possible to localize modern idiolects within Switzerland. The localization of varieties is undertaken with the aid of a horizontal dialect measurement procedure which, unlike vertical techniques, does not gauge the distance from standard but the similarity with local varieties. This makes it possible to identify both local features of the varieties in question and changes within Swiss German dialects in general.

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