Kombinatorik von Artikel, Ruf- und Familiennamen in Varietäten des Deutschen

Abstract

In this paper, we analyse the varying serialization and morphosyntax of complex personal names in dialects of German from a grammatical and pragmatic perspective. In Standard German, Christian name followed by surname is the unmarked sequence, while in many dialects the reverse order is used. Moreover, different variants of the definite article and different linking elements co-occur systematically. We present four case studies from four dialect areas of German, compare the systems we found and deduce a diachronic scenario of their emergence