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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Changes Between the Lines
:
Diachronic contact phenomena in written Pennsylvania German
Contains:
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.
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
In English
Description:
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.