Changes between the lines : diachronic contact phenomena in written Pennsylvania German /

The book examines the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change in Pennsylvania German (PG), a variety of German in long-term contact with English. Previous investigations of PG have drawn a more or less static, rather than dynamic, picture of this contact variety. The present study ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stolberg, Doris, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Germanic
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2015]
Colección:Studia linguistica Germanica ;v118.
Temas:
1800-1999
Pennsylvania German dialect > History > 19th century.
Pennsylvania German dialect > History > 20th century.
Pennsylvania German dialect > Influence.
Languages in contact > Pennsylvania.
Dialectology.
Linguistic change.
Pennsylvania Dutch (Dialecte) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Pennsylvania Dutch (Dialecte) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Pennsylvania Dutch (Dialecte) > Influence.
Langues en contact > Pennsylvanie.
Dialectologie.
Changement linguistique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
Dialectology
Languages in contact
Linguistic change
Pennsylvania German dialect
Pennsylvania German dialect > Influence
Pennsylvaniadeutsch
Sprachkontakt
Sprachwechsel
Schriftsprache
Englisch
Diachronie
Pennsylvania
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Outline
  • 1. Theoretical background
  • 2. The Pennsylvania Germans and their language(s)
  • 3. The PG data corpus
  • 4. Semantic-syntactic changes: Form-meaning and form-function relationships
  • 5. Structural variation and incipient change
  • 6. Verb position in complement dass-clauses
  • 7. Extraposition of prepositional phrases
  • 8. Stranded prepositions in Pennsylvania German
  • 9. General conclusions and implications
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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