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Description
This contribution presents a data collection on ‘Slavic in Viennese’, i.e. (glottonyms for) Slavic languages, (ethnonyms for) their speakers as well as single linguistic phenomena in German varieties typical for Vienna, that comprises 6,406 articles on 268 lemmas from 30 dialect dictionaries published between 1800 and 2020. In the contribution’s first part, corpus compilation and the underlying data structure are described and results of existing studies on this data collection are discussed. So far, these have allowed for the identification of reception networks between the dictionaries and revealed the reconstruction of stereotypes regarding speakers of South Slavic languages in them. Inspired by these results, the second part of the contribution presents an approach towards the use of the data collection (and similar ones) for the description of integration, variation and change of (West Slavic) loanwords in ‘Viennese’. By means of exploratory cluster analyses, three main clusters of lemma-meaning pairs are identified: one general that includes forms and meanings used throughout the complete observation period, one of historical forms and meanings that were common in the 19th century, and one of innovations from the second half of the 20th century. Building on this and the exemplary comparison of forms and meanings of three Czech loanwords (Kaluppe, Kolatsche, pomali), the contribution suggests that most similar loanwords must have been borrowed before the 19th century, thereby demonstrating the usability of the approach for historical (contact) linguistics.