Linguistics Projects

The project aims at transcribing and evaluating the handwriting and lexis contained on the over 100-year-old WBÖ paper slips with the intention of engaging citizens with their linguistic and regional heritage.

This project conducts a survey representative for Austria’s electoral population, that aims at a multidimensional representation of multilingualism in Austria regarding the parameters competence, usage and attitudes.

Digitisation of the language surveys for the "Deutscher Wortatlas" using AI

The DLYS (Dictionary of Loanwords in Yalkut Shimoni) project deals with the investigation of the –predominantly Greek– loanwords in the Yalkut Shimoni, a medieval Rabbinic narrative (“aggadic”) compilation on the Books of the Hebrew Bible and aims at the creation of a digital online dictionary.

The ELF in TIGs project develops a new methodological and descriptive framework for the study of communication in transient multilingual contexts.

The Emergence of the Austrian Federal Constitutional Law of 1920

The scope and topic of the FWF Special Research Programme (SFB) “German in Austria” encompass the entire spectrum of variation and varieties of German in Austria.

The Lexical Information System Austria (LIÖ) is a platform on which interested users can find out more about vocabulary and lexical variation in Austria.

A corpus-based analysis of language use and linguistic variation in Nestroy’s “Possen”, parodies and dramas, which aims at producing an up-to-date reference work, which will open up new perspectives on the diversity in the language of the ingenious Viennese playwright.

The project investigates the development of relational adjectives in the History of German.

The focus of the project is on the Arabic minority variety spoken in the Harran-Urfa region of Southeastern Turkey.

This project provides linguistic data and analysis for the hitherto almost unknown Arabic varieties spoken in northwestern and central Tunisia.

This online Corpus of Arabic varieties is a virtual research platform for Arabic dialectology and a testing ground for new text technological methods.

This project is dedicated to the documentation and lexicographic processing of the varied basal and regional dialects of (former) Austria.

Digitisation and publication of the printed volumes of the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (WBÖ) 1–5

The project investigates the Arabic language and focuses on the differences between sedentary and Bedouin varieties in the Middle East and North Africa.

The project documents multilingualism in Vienna and tests acquisition strategies for sociolinguistic surveys amongst multilingual and minoritized groups.