The project Language Dynamics in Austria (DynAT) is a long-term project of the Austrian Academy of Sciences with a linguistic focus. The aim of DynAT is to document and comprehensively analyze processes of language variation and change in Austria in the 21st and 20th century. The focus is on the German language in all its linguistic and social diversity, also including other minority and contact languages.

The research activities of this long-term project are bundled in the following research areas:

• Lexical and Grammatical Variation and Change: The comprehensive digital resources of the ACDH (in particular language corpora) are used to conduct language dynamics-oriented analyses on lexis and grammar in Austria in past and present times.

• Language in Space: This research area addresses the question whether and how areal parameters (geography) are determining factors of linguistic dynamics in Austria and in the German language area in general.

• (Internal and External) Multilingualism: This research area includes research on internal (intra-lingual) multilingualism (variation within the very same language) and external multilingualism (variation due to converging languages) with regard to language acquisition, language repertoires and language attitudes of individuals.

• AI meets Variationist Linguistics: This research area bundles and expands AI-supported research of the DynAT research areas and reflects on challenges and potentials of AI-tools for linguistic research.

Methodologically, these activities are embedded in the context of Digital Linguistics. In cooperation with the research unit DHRI at the ACDH digital resources (language corpora and infrastructure) in the context of DynAT are set up and expanded for research on language and languages in Austria.

The task area Science Communication is part of the long-term projects of DynAT. It aims at making the research results available to the interested public.

In addition, the following qualification projects are located in the context of DynAT research "lexis and grammar":

Dissertation projects

• Das gehört erforscht! Corpuslinguistic analyses on grammaticalization and usage of a non-canonical passive construction, Claudia Mattes (Gastforschende), Universität Wien

• Progressive Aspectuality in German: Form, Function, Variation, Markus Pluschkovits, ACDH & Universität Wien

• Linking Elements in Austria Between Norm & Variation. Analyses of NN-Compounds, Theresa Ziegler (Gastforschende), Universität Wien

Postdoctoral and Habilitation projects

• The Meaning of Form: Cognitive Representations and Constructional Patterning in German Verbo-nominal Constructions, Fabian Fleißner, ACDH & University of Vienna

• Language acquisition and language variation in Austria: theories, methods, analyses, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, ACDH & University of Vienna

• Language variation in Upper German – approaches, methods and models for investigating language and space, Philipp Stöckle, ACDH & University of Vienna