Eintrag

Titel

Studies on German-Language Islands

Personen

Michael T. Putnam

Jahr

2011

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Reihe

Studies in language

Band

123

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Deutsch (Dialekt)
Englisch
Niederländisch

Schlagwörter

Dialekt
Sprachkontakt

Beiträge

• Remy: On final laryngeal distinctions in Wisconsin Standard German
• Westphal Fitch: Changes in frequency as a measure of language change. Extraposition in Pennsylvania German
• Weilbacher: Texas German discourse pragmatics. A preliminary study of the English-origin discourse markers of course, see, and now
• Bidese: Revisiting the Wackernagelposition. The evolution of the Cimbrian pronominal system
• Abraham: Spoken syntax in Cimbrian of the linguistic islands in Northern Italy - and what they (do not) betray about language universals and change under areal contact with Italo-Romance
• Putnam: Why study Sprachinseln from generative or structural perspectives?
• Toebosch: Plautdietsch gender. Between Dutch and German
• Boas: Lexical developments in Texas German
• Putnam: Anaphors in contact. The distribution of intensifiers and reflexives in Amana German
• Louden: Synchrony and diachrony of verb clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch
• Padovan: Diachronic clues to grammaticalization phenomena in the Cimbrian CP
• Kaufmann: Looking for order in chaos. Standard convergence and divergence in Mennonite Low German
• Grewendorf: Hidden verb second. The case of Cimbrian
• Page: Gender assignment of English loanwords in Pennsylvania German. Is there a feminine tendency?
• Betz: Word choice, turn construction, and topic management in German conversation. Adverbs that are sensitive to interactional positioning
• Börjahrs: From preposition to purposive to infinitival marker. The Pennsylvania German fer…zu construction

Abstract

The contributions in this volume present cutting-edge theoretical and structural analyses of issues surrounding German-language islands, or Sprachinseln, throughout the world. The individual topics of study in this volume focus on various aspects of these German-language islands such as (but not limited to) phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of these languages under investigation. Collectively, the body of research contained in this volume explores significantly under-researched topics in the fields of language contact and language attrition and illustrates how this on-going research can be enhanced through the application of formal theoretical frameworks and structural analyses.

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