Eintrag

Titel

Looking for order in chaos. Standard convergence and divergence in Mennonite Low German

Personen

Göz Kaufmann

Jahr

2011

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Seiten

187 - 230

In

Studies on German-Language Islands

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Deutsch (DDR)

Schlagwörter

Linguistik
Sprachkontakt

Abstract

In this paper I analyze the ongoing converging and diverging processes between Mennonite Low German (MLG) and Standard German in six Mennonite colonies in the Americas. The statistically detectable differences in the informants' behavior with regard to five linguistic phenomena and the comparison between all colonies and between different age-gender-subgroups in three of these colonies offer new and promising insights into the structural and sociolinguistic conditioning of converging and diverging.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/74953