German-speaking Switzerland can certainly be regarded as one of the liveliest and at the same time best researched dialect areas in Central Europe. It is all the more surprising that dialectometric analyses in this area have only recently been performed and none of them included an investigation into the level of syntax. In this paper we pursue two goals: First, we present digital data that has been made available in recent years on the basis of the Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz (SDS) and the Syntaktischer Atlas der deutschen Schweiz (SADS). Our second goal is to present dialectometric analyses performed with this data. A special focus is put on the comparison of different linguistic levels (lexis, phonology, morphology and syntax). Our methods include hierarchical cluster analyses (of the whole dataset as well as of the linguistic levels), correlations (between pairs of linguistic levels and between linguistic levels and geography) and parameter maps which allow us to draw conclusions about the distributions of innovative and conservative regions, dialect centers and transition zones. Our results show that while all four levels generally yield similar geographic patterns (dynamic areas in the North vs. conservative areas in the South, agreement of dialect and cantonal borders, high correlations with geography), syntax deviates most from the other levels.

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瑞士德语的定量方法–语言学的方言分析和比较

当然，说德语的瑞士可以被认为是中欧最活跃，同时也是研究最多的方言地区之一。更加令人惊讶的是，该领域的方言分析只是在最近才进行的，而且都没有对语法水平进行调查。在本文中，我们追求两个目标：首先，我们介绍近年来在Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz（SDS）和Syntaktischer Atlas der deutschen Schweiz（SADS）的基础上提供的数字数据。我们的第二个目标是介绍使用此数据执行的方言分析。特别着重于比较不同语言水平（词汇，语音，形态和语法）。我们的方法包括（整个数据集以及语言水平的）层次聚类分析，相关性（在成对的语言水平之间以及语言水平和地理之间）和参数图，这使我们可以得出有关创新和保守地区，方言中心和过渡带的分布的结论。我们的结果表明，尽管所有四个级别通常都产生相似的地理模式（北部的动态区域与南部的保守区域，方言和州边界的一致，与地理的高度相关性），但语法与其他级别的偏差最大。