Changes Between the Lines : : Diachronic contact phenomena in written Pennsylvania German /

Changes Between the Lines : : Diachronic contact phenomena in written Pennsylvania German / / Doris Stolberg.

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The book investigates the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change based on empirical data from Pennsylvania German (PG), a variety of German in long-term contact with English. Written data published in local print media from Pennsylvania (USA) between 1868 and 1992 are analyzed with...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Stolberg, Doris,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Studia Linguistica Germanica , 118
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Physical Description:1 online resource (319 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Outline
  • Part I: Theoretical and sociohistoric background
  • 1. Theoretical background
  • 2. The Pennsylvania Germans and their language(s)
  • Part II: Data analyses
  • 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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