2012 · VOLUME 20 D IALECTOLOGIA ET GEOLINGUISTICA JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR DIALECTOLOGY AND GEOLINGUISTICS EDITORS Astrid van Nahl Scandinavian Department University of Bonn Am Hof 1d 53113 Bonn E-mail: [email protected] Wolfgang Viereck University of Bamberg Germany EDITORIAL SUPPORT Shane Walshe EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NOMINATING COMMITTEE President Martin Haase, Germany (by office) Maria-Pilar Perea, Spain Fumio Inoue, Japan Mihaela Koletnik, Slovenia Vice-Presidents Jožica Škofic, Slovenia Hans Goebl, Austria Astrid van Nahl, Germany (by office) Chitsuko Fukushima, Japan Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austria Manuela Nevaci, Romania Treasurer Christina Schrödl, Austria Secretary Ruth van Nahl, Germany Chief-Editor Astrid van Nahl, Germany EDITORIAL BOARD Gotzon Aurrekoetxea, Spain Peter Ernst, Austria Hans Goebl, Austria Fumio Inoue, Japan John Kirk, United Kingdom Jean Le Dû, France Nicolae Saramandu, Romania Agris Timuška, Latvia Shane Walshe, Switzerland Seosamh Watson, Ireland Contents / Sommaire / Inhalt Articles / Articles / Aufsätze Wolfgang Viereck, The International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics: A Brief History . 3 Michael Pearce, Folk accounts of dialect differences in Tyne and Wear. 5 Alenka Valh Lopert and Mihaela Koletnik, Expressing local identity through radio discourse. 26 Claudine Chamoreau, The geographical distribution of typologically diverse comparative constructions of superiority in Purepecha . 37 Aleksandar Mikić and Vesna Perić, Origin and diversity of the words denoting some traditional Eurasian pulse crops in Mongolic and Tungusic . 63 Daniel Meschenmoser and Simon Pröll, Automatic detection of radial structures in dialect maps: determining diffusion centers . 71 Warren Maguire, Mapping The Existing Phonology of English Dialect . 84 Anika Falkert, La dialectologie perceptuelle: problèmes et perspectives . 108 Reviews / Comptes rendus / Besprechungen Dieter Stellmacher: Wörterbuch der Volkssuperlative von aalglatt bis zappen- duster. Zusammengestellt und herausgegeben von Guido Oebel. Teil I: Wörter- buch, Teil II: Begleitband, Hamburg: Dr. Kovač 2011 . 130 Dieter Stellmacher: Sarah Dessì Schmid, Jochen Hafner & Sabine Heinemann (Hrsg.), Koineisierung und Standardisierung in der Romania (Studia Romanica 166). Heidelberg: Winter 2011 . 132 Olga W. Babikowa: Elisabeth Knipf-Komlósi: Wandel im Wortschatz der Minder- heitensprache. Am Beispiel des Deutschen in Ungarn. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2011 . 137 Jean Le Dû: Patrice Brasseur, Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique Normand, t. 4, Caen, Office Universitaire d’Études Normandes (OUEN), 2011, non pagi- né, cartes 1069–1400 et suppléments . 140 Wolfgang Viereck: Peter Trudgill, Sociolinguistic Typology. Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity. Oxford: University Press, 2011 . 142 The International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics: A Brief History When, in mid-1990, an international congress of dialectologists was held at the University of Bamberg an enormous interest in this field became evident. About 170 papers were presented there by scholars from more than 20 countries, with four thick volumes of congress proceedings subsequently being published in the first half of the 1990s by the congress President Professor WOLFGANG VIERECK and his team. It thus seemed quite an appropriate time to discuss the foundation of a society. First steps in that direction were taken in 1990 and 1991 with the publi- cation and distribution of a Bulletin containing the society’s statutes as well as some information on sister associations and congresses. Some discussions, first in Florence, centered around the name of the society’s journal. Of the three proposals Dialectologica et Geolinguistica, Dialectologia et Geolinguistica and Dialectologista, possibly surrounded by a ‘wheel’ of transla- tions in the main languages, members favoured the second version. The front page of the journal was expertly designed by Dipl. Ing. and architect GERNOT DIETEL and the first two numbers were printed from camera-ready copy by Lincom Eu- ropa, Munich. The printing then went to Italy, namely to Edizioni dell’Orso in Alessandria. Since no. 10/2002 the society’s journal has been printed, at the President’s suggestion, by Mouton De Gruyter in Berlin. From the first issue down to no. 11/ 2003 the computational production of the journal and the Bulletin lay in the expert hands of Mrs LIESBETH DIETEL, secretary at the Chair of English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at Bamberg University. In the Bulle- tin of 2003 Professor Viereck expressed his sincere thanks to them as well as to Dr. BIRGIT BRIETZ, Prof. Dr. GABRIELE KNAPPE, Dr. SHANE WALSHE and Mr. KENNETH WYNNE for their unfailing support during all these years. Professor Viereck was editor of our journal from no. 1/1993 to no. 11/2003. The first President of our society was Professor MARIO ALINEI who acted in this capacity until 1997 when, at our second congress in Amsterdam, Vice-President Professor WOLFGANG VIERECK was elected his successor. Professor Alinei was not present at the society’s first congress in Budapast where Professor Viereck had to take over his role at very short notice. In 1997 GABRIELLA GIACOMELLI also stepped down as Secretary and Treasurer. That was really at the last moment. She would have ruined our society had she stayed on for another year or two. She used certain tricks so that her annual financial reports could not be checked how- ever hard we tried. She also employed a student assistant and paid her with the society’s money. The result was that, when Dr. BIRGIT BRIETZ took over as Treas- urer, the society had nothing but serious debts. It was only with the help of the Rector of Bamberg University, the support of the Society of Friends of Bamberg University and a handsome contribution from the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy in Uppsala that our society and its journal survived. 4 The SIDG: A Brief History The first congress of our society was held in Budapest in April 1993, organised by Professors JENŐ KISS and SANDOR ROT. Due to financial difficulties, no congress proceedings were published. Further congresses followed, namely in Amsterdam in 1997 (organised by Professors JAN BERNS and JAAP VAN MARLE, who also ed- ited its proceedings), in Lublin in 2000 (organised by Professor STEFAN WAR- CHOŁ, who also edited its proceedings), in Riga in 2003 (organised by Professor AGRIS TIMUŠKA, who also edited its proceedings), in Braga, Portugal, in 2006 (badly organised by Professor BRIAN HEAD; unsurprisingly no proceedings were published), in Maribor in 2009 (organised by Professor MIHAELA KOLETNIK, who also edited its proceedings). In 2012 the society will meet at the Austrian Acad- emy of Sciences in Vienna. At our congress in Riga in 2003, some members were elected for a number of positions: Professor WOLFGANG VIERECK was elected Honorary President; LARS- ERIK EDLUND (Sweden) became the new president and Professor GRAHAM SHOR- ROCKS (Canada) the new editor. The appointment of the new editor turned out to be a real catastrophe. With the new President, the society did not fare much bet- ter; he resigned from this post in early 2006. During all these years, the society faced, after the financial crisis, another difficult period. But, again, there was hope. Dr. ASTRID VAN NAHL of Bonn University kindly accepted the position as editor. Ever since no. 12/2004 she has devoted much time, energy and money to producing our journal and always on time. Indeed, it is due to her unfailing efforts during the last decade that the society’s journal is well respected. Following Pro- fessor Edlund’s resignation Professor Viereck accepted the presidency again for a short period. The society needed someone who could fill the vacancy till the next elections. These elections took place at our next congress in Braga in September 2006. Since that time, Professor MARTIN HAASE has been the society’s President; he stepped down in 2012 when, in Vienna, Professor MARIA-PILAR PEREA was elected our new president. Dr. ASTRID VAN NAHL continued as editor of Dialec- tologia et Geolinguistica; she has been supported by Professor Viereck officially since the Maribor Congress in 2009. During Wolfgang Viereck’s Presidency, our Society received UNESCO recogni- tion and is now a full member of CIPL, the Comité International Permanent des Linguistes. Our journal enjoys an excellent reputation. It has been highly rated on several occasions by the European Science Foundation. Manuscripts are now of- fered to us and they are peer-reviewed; we no longer have to ask for them as we had in the first years of the journal’s existence. Our volumes could easily be thicker, only financial restrictions do not allow that. To sum up, our society has had its ups and downs, but it is now alive and well. Hopefully it will continue to enjoy the same reputation in future. Only then will it attract more members and officers dedicated to its scholarly aims. Bamberg, 2012 Wolfgang Viereck (Honorary President) DiG 20 (2012), 5–25 DOI 10.1515/dialect-2012-0001 Folk accounts of dialect differences in Tyne and Wear Michael Pearce Abstract This article explores folk-perceptions of dialect differences within Tyne and Wear, North East England. It presents a qualitative analysis of responses to an online survey in which participants offered their descriptions of linguistic varia- tion. These richly detailed comments are used in the composition of a nuanced picture of lay perceptions of linguistic variation in the region.