Variation der Präpositionswahl in direktiven Argumenten im Tschechischen und Deutschen kontrastiv

Preposition choice is amongst the most prominent phenomena in which German in Austria differs from other varieties of German. Many instances are explained by language contact with Slavic languages in general and Czech in particular. This contribution sheds light on diamedial and diatopic variation of preposition choice in directive arguments (of the verbs Germ. gehen / Cz. jít/chodit) with the translation equivalents of school as the PPs inner objects. It chooses a contrastive, databased approach by analysing spoken and written corpora of various German varieties and Czech. We find evidence for diamedial variation in all analysed varieties or languages, respectively, with the prepositions Germ. in and Cz. do 'into' being relatively more frequent in spoken than in written language. Also, we identify two larger areal patterns with gradual transitions in Central Europe: first, a north-western one in the Hamburg/Hannover region, in which the preposition Germ. zu 'to' prevails; second a south-eastern one in Austria, Bavaria and the Czech Republic with the dominant preposition Germ. in / Cz. do 'into'.