February 4th and 5th, Andreas Widoff and Johanna Prytz visited Torsö, Västergötland and Viby, Närke to carry out the third field work for the NorDiaCorp Göteborg section.  |
| Older informants on Torsö. (Photo: Johanna Prytz) |
The data from Torsö, an island in Lake Vänern, seems to roughly correlate with the Västergötland data already gathered in Floby. However, the data on binding and reflexives differs somewhat from Floby as well as from other places investigated by us so far.
Reaching Viby, we left Västergötland behind and entered another region and another dialect area. In the data we gathered there, the most striking difference from other places is the acceptance of the conditional with har ('have'). In Viby, we also met the first informants to accept the particle to be placed before the reflexive pronoun when using a reflexive verb. The older informants both thought this was just as acceptable as placing the particle after the pronoun, while the younger informants where more reluctant to accept it, even if they did not entirely rule it out.  |
| Viby is famous for the buzzing i:s in their dialect, locally sometimes written with a double i. (Photo: Johanna Prytz) |
The informants also provided interesting data on some dialect words. On Torsö, an alternative to the interrogative pronoun vem is the dialect word tocken, with the varieties hocken and töcken. In Viby, they used the dialect word vetja or tja (/vɛʃɑ:/ or /ʃɑ:/) 'undrar', as in vetja om han kommer 'undrar om han kommer', and the word fälle 'månntro' as in kommer hon fälle 'kommer hon månntro' or 'ju' det gör de fälle visst inte 'det gör de ju visst inte'.
As for the methodological part, we had some trouble finding younger informants who previously participated in the SweDia 2000 project, and we had to resort to two new younger informants. Also, one of the older informants had trouble hearing the sentences and keeping up with the assignment given, which resulted in some unreliable data. Moreover, one of the younger informants did not show up at all to our appointment, but we were saved by having booked no less than three younger informants that day. This once again raises the question of how to best pick out suitable informants for the research, as well as maybe having standby informants just in case something should happen.
/Johanna Prytz
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