La Parabola del Figliol Prodigo e le sue traduzioni in area tedesca
Dall'antico alto tedesco alle isole linguistiche italiane
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Federica Cognola - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
- Chiara De Bastiani - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
Starting with Coquebert de Montbret’s linguistic surveys on the languages spoken in the French Empire (1806-12), the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke XV, 11-32) became, at least until the beginning of the twentieth century, the typical text used to collect linguistic samples of a specific variety. For many varieties, the translations collected during the nineteenth-century linguistic surveys represent the oldest available text; in some cases these translations are the only documentation of now extinct varieties. Through the analysis of different case studies from German varieties, the contributions collected in the present volume discuss the linguistic characteristics of the translations in relation to the grammar of present-day varieties, and highlight their potential for comparative linguistic research. The volume can be of interest to all those working on diachronic linguistics, comparative linguistics, contact linguistics, and heritage German varieties.
Keywords Language attrition • Minority languages • Old Germanic Gospels • Diachronic linguistics • Parable of the Prodigal Son • Heritage German • Translation strategies • Saurano • Walser dialects • Languages in diachrony • Old High German Diatessaron • OV/VO languages • Diachronic change • Saurian • Mòcheno • Language Contact • Montbret Manuscript • Disharmonic syntax • Tischlbongarisch • German minorities • Linguistic islands • Syntax • German language islands • Language variation • Walser varieties • Linguistic island • Comparative linguistics • Verb second (V2) • German dialectology • Old High German • Multilingualism • Timavese • Language contact
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-995-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-995-5 | ISBN (PRINT) 979-12-5742-021-5 | Published Feb. 10, 2026 | Language en, it
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