One Standard German Axiom
The One Standard German Axiom (OSGA) is a concept by Austrian-Canadian University of British Columbia, UBC linguist Stefan Dollinger in his 2019 monograph ''The Pluricentricity Debate'', used to describe what he believes is scepticism in German dialectology and German linguistics, linguistics towards the idea of multiple standard varieties. Background and development The concept of “pluricentric language” has been used in sociolinguistics and sociology of language since the 1960s. Multiple standard varieties are commonplace in English, Portuguese and Dutch today (e.g. American English, Brazilian Portuguese or Belgian Dutch), among many others, including German. While the application of the pluricentric model for German has been undisputed at least since the work by Michael Clyne 1992, recent research in German variational sociolinguistics have refined the concept of “pluricentricity” (originally referring only to the national centers Austrian German, Swiss German, etc.) ...
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University Of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top three universities in Canada. With an annual research budget of $759million, UBC funds over 8,000 projects a year. The Vancouver campus is situated adjacent to the University Endowment Lands located about west of downtown Vancouver. UBC is home to TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for Particle physics, particle and nuclear physics, which houses the world's largest cyclotron. In addition to the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Stuart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, UBC and the Max Planck Society collectively established the first Max Planck Institute in North America, specializing in quantum materials. One of the largest research libraries in Canada, the UBC Library system has over 9.9million volumes among it ...
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