2024/12/19 by Conrad, François
#830 #Fußballsprache #Luxembourgish #Luxemburgisch #Muttersprache #Sprachkontakt #language contact #language of football #lexical doublets #lexical variation #lexikalische Dubletten #lexikalische Variation
paper · doi:10.15488/18291
This article analyses the results of an online survey (1,189 participants) about the Luxembourgish football language. With a focus on the choice of the variants within contact-induced lexical doublets (e. g., Schiidsrichter/Arbitter, in German Schiedsrichter/in French arbitre ›referee‹), the investigation reveals the richness of lexical variants within the Luxembourgish football language as a mirror reflecting the multilingual variation in Luxembourgish overall. While the variants of certain lexical doublets show similar quantitative distributions, in most cases the participants have a clear preference for one of the possible variants. Additionally, the analysis reveals numerous doublets in the linguistic repertoire of the Luxembourgish football enthusiasts – meaning that they indicate using both variants equally on the individual level. Due to this diversity of lexical variants, Luxembourgish is quite a flexible and versatile player on the linguistic playing field.