Over the last several years, a large and highly varied database containing
elements of the Lower Sorbian language has been compiled at the Sorbian
Institute as a documentation of the Sorbian cultural heritage. It includes
several dictionaries, corpora and similar textual specimens. Work on incorporating
the many proper names of Sorbian origin has already begun, and it
appears possible to add minor place names in the near future. The state of research
is characterized by a high number of different regional and local collections.
Many of these have been published: some cover large parts of Lusatia
while others are confined to individual settlements; some of them are onomastic
studies containing extensive analysis, others are merely uncommented
lists of names. Additionally, there are several handwritten collections in the
archives comprising thousands of names. Substantial parts of the study areas
overlap. Although one might expect the same names to be found in these
different collections, there is in fact a remarkable degree of divergence, as
demonstrated here by two examples. The amalgamation of these collections
into a comprehensive database needs to consider their heterogeneous character,
as outlined in the article.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:80465 |
| Date | 17 August 2022 |
| Creators | Zschieschang, Christian |
| Publisher | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Namensforschung e.V., Universitätsverlag Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-803849, 13, qucosa:80384 |
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