Task Cluster B: Variation

Task Cluster B focuses on the dynamics of varieties of German in Austria in their complex linguistic and social structures. Thereby, individual tendencies as well as those tendencies specific to certain groups are taken into account. Task cluster B is divided into three project parts that collectively address the following questions:

Who in Austria speaks which form(s) of German to whom and when? Which registers (varieties, styles) are chosen in certain contexts and how are they used? Which speech repertoires are in fact available to whom in Austria?

Which processes of language change can be derived from the comparison between ‘older’ language data and the SFB’s new data of currently spoken German? Which hypotheses can be postulated as a result of the synchronic variation ‘in vivo’ with regard to processes of language change in the future?

To what extent do cities such as Vienna and Graz influence the linguistic conditions in Austria? Which kind of impact do these cities have on the dialect landscape in Austria, on the one hand, and on the establishment and stabilisation of an Austrian standard language, on the other?

In order to pursue these and other questions, language data of a large number of people (of diverse regions and groups) in Austria are currently being collected and analysed extensively. Future steps will include the investigation of individual linguistic characteristics and potential patterns of language use. Within the scope of the data collection, rural as well as more urban areas (c.f. PP04) are taken into consideration. Besides dialects, special attention is paid to the German standard language in Austria as well as to the colloquial forms of speech which lie in between dialect and standard language (c.f. PP03). In addition to the data collected in the course of the SFB, comparative language data of the past century are consulted in order to trace the evolution of dialects in Austria (c.f. PP02).

The linguistic data, which will be analysed in Task cluster B, are primarily collected via active field work. This means that in all three project parts the selected speakers are recorded in their home regions, ranging from Vienna and Graz to smaller and more rural locations in all of Austria’s federal provinces. These recordings take place in different ‘examination situations’ which cover traditional sociolinguistic ‘in depth interviews’ (discussing topics such as individual language experiences), experimental investigation techniques (such as translation exercises or image descriptions), and conversations close to everyday speech situations. This way, our speech data can offer a broad picture of various ‘linguistic spaces’ in Austria.

Task cluster B: Variation and changes of German in Austria consists of the following project parts:

PP02: Variation and change of dialect varieties in Austria (in real and apparent time)
PP03: Between dialects and standard varieties: Speech repertoires and varietal spectra
PP04: Vienna and Graz – Cities and their influential force

For more information concerning the individual project parts, please click on the links above.

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DiÖ (2021): Task Cluster B: Variation.
In: DiÖ-Online.
URL: https://www.dioe.at/en/projects/task-cluster-b-variation
[Access: 02.07.2025]
Team: Alexandra N. Lenz (PP01: Projektleitung), Stephan Elspaß (PP02: Projektleitung), Arne Ziegler (PP04: Projektleitung), Amelie Dorn (PP03: Projektmitarbeiterin), Stefanie Edler (PP04: Projektmitarbeiterin), Ann Kathrin Fischer (PP04: Projektmitarbeiterin), David Gschösser (PP02: Projektmitarbeiter), Katharina Korecky-Kröll (PP03: Projektmitarbeiterin), Jan Luttenberger (PP02: Projektmitarbeiter), Claudia Mattes (PP03: Projektmitarbeiterin), Dragana Rakocevic (PP04: Projektmitarbeiterin), Florian David Tavernier (PP03: Projektmitarbeiter), Gerrit Tscheru (PP04: Projektmitarbeiterin), Dominik Wallner (PP02: Projektmitarbeiter), Anja Wittibschlager (PP03: Projektmitarbeiterin), Theresa Ziegler (PP01: Projektmitarbeiterin), Lisa Handler (PP04: Studentische Hilfskraft), Magdalena Kirnbauer (PP03: Studentische Hilfskraft), Kerstin Lorenz (PP03: Studentische Hilfskraft), Alexandra Rotterbauer (PP03: Studentische Hilfskraft), Simone Sailer (PP03: Studentische Hilfskraft), Eric Schirl (PP03: Studentische Hilfskraft), Lars Bülow (PP02: kooptiert), Johanna Fanta-Jende (PP03: kooptiert), Peter Mauser (PP02: kooptiert), Eva Reinisch (PP02: Kooptierte Mitarbeiterin)
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DiÖ – Cluster B – Event – Panel discussion
25. June 2025

Lenz, Alexandra N. Podiumsdiskussion: KI im Spiegel der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften

KI im Spiegel der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften

  • Fassmann, Heinz / Schütze, Sebastian / Herrmann, Berenike / Karmasin, Matthias / Lenz, Alexandra N. (25.06.2025): Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften im Zeitalter von KI. (AI meets Humanities & Social Sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences) Podiumsdiskussion moderiert von Birgit Dalheimer [URL: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/conference/ai-meets-hss/en/discussants/] M
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DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication – Article
17. June 2025

Lenz, Alexandra N. / Koppensteiner, Wolfgang / Mattes, Claudia / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina: Variationssensitive Ansätze zur korpus- linguistischen Erforschung lexikalischer Dynamik im 21. Jahrhundert

  • Lenz, Alexandra N. / Koppensteiner, Wolfgang / Mattes, Claudia / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (submitted): Variationssensitive Ansätze zur korpus- linguistischen Erforschung lexikalischer Dy-namik im 21. Jahrhundert. In: Annelen Brunner, Annelen / Diewald, Gabriele / Hansen, Sandra / Kopf, Kristin / Wöllstein, Angelika: Deutsch im Wandel. Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache 2025. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter . M
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Artikel URL: https://www.dioe.at/en/article/3365
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
15. May 2025

Lenz, Alexandra N. (im Druck): Rezension zu: Elvira Glaser (Hg.): Syntaktischer Atlas der deutschen Schweiz (SADS). 2021

  • Lenz, Alexandra N. (in print): Rezension zu: Elvira Glaser (Hg.): Syntaktischer Atlas der deutschen Schweiz (SADS). 2021. In: M
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DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
15. May 2025

Lenz, Alexandra N. / Ziegler, Theresa / Höll, Jan / Kunzmann, Markus / Dorn, Amelie (im Druck): Lexikalische Dynamik in österreichischen Varietäten aus panchronischer Perspektive

  • Lenz, Alexandra N. / Ziegler, Theresa / Höll, Jan / Kunzmann, Markus / Dorn, Amelie (in print): Lexikalische Dynamik in österreichischen Varietäten aus panchronischer Perspektive. In: Schamberger-Hint, Andreas: 200 Jahre Dialektologie. Forschungsstand und Auftrag. Akten der 15. Bayerisch-Österreichischen Dialektologietagung 2023 Regensburg: Edition Vulpes . M
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DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
12. May 2025

Lenz, Alexandra N. (12.05.2025): Sprachvielfalt, Sprachvariation, Sprachkontakt. Perspektiven aus und auf Österreich

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DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
02. April 2025

Stöckle, Philipp / Wahl, Sabine / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (2.4.2025): Vortrag in München

  • Stöckle, Philipp / Wahl, Sabine / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (02.04.2025): Diminutivvariation in den bairischen Dialekten Österreichs: Ein real-time-Vergleich. (DACH_LVC: Sprachvariation und -wandel im deutschsprachigen Raum, Senatssaal der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) [URL: https://www.memes.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/dach_lvc/] M
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Artikel URL: https://www.dioe.at/en/article/3354
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
02. April 2025

Gschösser, David / Mauser, Peter / Elspaß, Stephan (2.4.2025): Vortrag in München

  • Gschösser, David / Mauser, Peter / Elspaß, Stephan (02.04.2025): „Oisa toda oda oisa lewentiga“: Variation und Wandel koprädikativer Adjektive und Partizipien in den deutschen Dialekten in Österreich. (DACH_LVC: Sprachvariation und -wandel im deutschsprachigen Raum, Senatssaal der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) [URL: https://www.memes.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/dach_lvc/] M
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Artikel URL: https://www.dioe.at/en/article/3352
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
02. April 2025

Korecky-Kröll, Katharina / Wittibschlager, Anja (2.4.2025): Vortrag in München

  • Korecky-Kröll, Katharina / Wittibschlager, Anja (02.04.2025): Lectal Coherence in Morphology and Syntax: Evidence from German in Austria. (DACH_LVC: Sprachvariation und -wandel im deutschsprachigen Raum, Senatssaal der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) [URL: https://www.memes.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/dach_lvc/] M
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DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
02. April 2025

Wirth, Mason A. / Elspaß, Stephan / Möller, Robert / Pickl, Simon / Niehaus, Konstantin (1.4.2025): Vortrag in München

  • Wirtz, Mason A. / Elspaß, Stephan / Möller, Robert / Pickl, Simon / Niehaus, Konstantin (01.04.2025): Real-and Apparent-Time change in Colloquial German: A 20-year Trend Study. (DACH_LVC: Sprachvariation und -wandel im deutschsprachigen Raum, Senatssaal der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) [URL: https://www.memes.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/dach_lvc/] M
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Artikel URL: https://www.dioe.at/en/article/3350
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
02. April 2025

Vergeiner, Philip C. / Elspaß, Stephan (2025): Infinitival constructions in the German dialects of Austria. On variation, constraints and change of a prominent syntactic feature

  • Vergeiner, Philip C. / Elspaß, Stephan (2025): Infinitival constructions in the German dialects of Austria. On variation, constraints and change of a prominent syntactic feature. In: Journal of Germanic Linguistics 37 1st View, 1-34. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542724000096] M
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Artikel URL: https://www.dioe.at/en/article/3349
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
01. April 2025

Vergeiner, Philip C. (2.4.2025): Vortrag in München

  • Vergeiner, Philip C. (02.04.2025): Dialectal Coherence across Different Linguistic Levels: Dialectometric Results from Austria. (DACH_LVC: Sprachvariation und -wandel im deutschsprachigen Raum, Senatssaal der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) [URL: https://www.memes.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/dach_lvc/] M
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Artikel URL: https://www.dioe.at/en/article/3351
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
13. March 2025

Lenz, Alexandra N. (13.03.2025): Vortrag in Mannheim

  • Lenz, Alexandra N. (13.03.2025): Sprachdynamik in Österreich im 21. Jahrhundert – Varietätensensitive Ansätze zur Erforschung linguistischer und soziolinguistischer Steuerungsparameter. (61. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache: Deutsch im Wandel, Mannheim, Deutschland) [URL: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/tagungen/2025/programm/] M
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DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
06. March 2025

Korecky-Kröll, Katharina / Wittibschlager, Anja (2025): Subjunctive and diminutive use as politeness strategies in German in Austria Comparative evidence from sociolinguistic interviews and conversations among friends

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DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
06. March 2025

Vergeiner, Philip C. / Bülow, Lars / Elspaß, Stephan (2025): The social versus the regional. The social versus the regional A multivariate analysis of (morpho-)syntactic variation in Austria's rural dialects

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Artikel URL: https://www.dioe.at/en/article/3308
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
06. March 2025

Vergeiner, Philip C. / Bülow, Lars / Elspaß, Stephan (2025): Analysing dialect (morpho)syntax in Austria: A non-aggregative dialectometric approach

  • Vergeiner, Philip C. / Bülow, Lars / Elspaß, Stephan (2025): Analysing dialect (morpho)syntax in Austria: A non-aggregative dialectometric approach. In: Journal of Linguistic Geography. First View 1-12. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2024.15] M
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Artikel URL: https://www.dioe.at/en/article/3343
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