Abstract
In this article, a detailed account is given of the collection of data at Udvalg for Folkemaal (The Dialect Commission, later the Institute of Danish Dialectology, later still the Dialectology Section) from its very beginning in 1909 till around 1940, including the kinds of methods used, the organisation of the work and the relations between the dialectologists and the informants. Special attention is given to the practical and theoretical considerations behind two unconventional questionnaires, the so-called big questionnaire and the phraseological questionnaire, both introduced around 1930. Examples of the work with and results of the collection of data using the two questionnaires are given, and two case studies are presented, introducing a fully trained, "ideal" informant and a more "common or garden" informant.
| Original language | Danish |
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| Title of host publication | Dialektforskning i 100 år |
| Editors | Asgerd Gudiksen, Henrik Hovmark, Pia Quist, Jann Scheuer, Iben Stampe Sletten |
| Number of pages | 52 |
| Place of Publication | København |
| Publisher | Museum Tusculanum |
| Publication date | 2009 |
| Pages | 13-64 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-87-992447-2-0 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |