Studies on German-Language Islands

Editor

Michael T. Putnam

| The Pennsylvania State University

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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.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 123] 2011. xii, 477 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.123

Table of Contents

Table of contents	i–viii
Acknowledgements	vii–viii
List of abbreviations	ix–x
List of contributors	xi–xii
Why study Sprachinseln from generative or structural perspectives?: Introductory remarks Michael T. Putnam	1–10
Section 1. Phonetics & Phonology	11–64
On final laryngeal distinctions in Wisconsin Standard German Renee Remy	13–32
Past participles in Mòcheno: Allomorphy, alignment and the distribution of obstruents Birgit Alber	33–64
Section 2. Morphology & Lexical studies	65–162
Plautdietsch gender: Between Dutch and German Annemarie Toebosch	67–110
Anaphors in contact: The distribution of intensifiers and reflexives in Amana German Michael T. Putnam	111–128
Lexical developments in Texas German Hans C. Boas and Marc Pierce	129–150
Gender assignment of English loanwords in Pennsylvania German: Is there a feminine tendency? B. Richard Page	151–162
Section 3. Syntax I - Verb clusters	163–230
Synchrony and diachrony of verb clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch Mark L. Louden	165–186
Looking for order in chaos: Standard convergence and divergence in Mennonite Low German Göz Kaufmann	187–230
Section 4. Syntax II - The syntax of Cimbrian German	231–368
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 Werner Abraham	233–278
Diachronic clues to grammaticalization phenomena in the Cimbrian CP Andrea Padovan	279–300
Hidden verb second: The case of Cimbrian Günther Grewendorf and Cecilia Poletto	301–346
Revisiting the Wackernagelposition : The evolution of the Cimbrian pronominal system Ermenegildo Bidese	347–368
Section 5. Syntax III - The syntax of Pennsylvania German	369–412
Changes in frequency as a measure of language change: Extraposition in Pennsylvania German Gesche Westphal Fitch	371–384
From preposition to purposive to infinitival marker: The Pennsylvania German fer…zu construction Kersti Börjars and Kate Burridge	385–412
Section 6. Pragmatics & Conversation analysis	413–474
Word choice, turn construction, and topic management in German conversation: Adverbs that are sensitive to interactional positioning Emma Betz	415–454
Texas German discourse pragmatics: A preliminary study of the English-origin discourse markers of course, see, and now Hunter Weilbacher	455–474
Index	475–478

“I do not know any area where descriptive work has as long or as consistently remained separate from theoretical work as in the study of colonial German varieties. In recent years, individual studies have begun to bridge that gap, but this volume is the first to achieve that fully, across wide-ranging theoretical frameworks, colonial varieties and subfields of linguistics.”

Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Subjects

Linguistics

Germanic linguistics

Historical linguistics

Syntax

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2010045325 | Marc record