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Author Stolberg, Doris, 1965- author.

Title Changes between the lines : diachronic contact phenomena in written Pennsylvania German / Doris Stolberg
Published Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 319 pages .)
Series Studia linguistica Germanica ; Band 118
Studia linguistica Germanica ;v118
Contents 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
Summary 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 explores the dynamics of selected semantic and syntactic changes in Pennsylvania German, based on local print media from 1868 to 1992
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pennsylvania German dialect -- History -- 19th century
Pennsylvania German dialect -- History -- 20th century
Pennsylvania German dialect -- Influence
Languages in contact -- Pennsylvania
Dialectology.
Linguistic change.
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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3110339501
9783110339505