Studies on German-Language Islands
Published on 31. January 2011
Book
Hardback
477 pages
978-90-272-0590-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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-MadisonMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
1050 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0590-2 (9789027205902)
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Michael T. Putnam
Studies on German-Language Islands
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Content
1. Table of contents; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. List of abbreviations; 4. List of contributors; 5. Why study Sprachinseln from generative or structural perspectives?: Introductory remarks (by Putnam, Michael T.); 6. Section 1. Phonetics & Phonology; 7. On final laryngeal distinctions in Wisconsin Standard German (by Remy, Renee); 8. Past participles in Mocheno: Allomorphy, alignment and the distribution of obstruents (by Alber, Birgit); 9. Section 2. Morphology & Lexical studies; 10. Plautdietsch gender: Between Dutch and German (by Toebosch, Annemarie); 11. Anaphors in contact: The distribution of intensifiers and reflexives in Amana German (by Putnam, Michael T.); 12. Lexical developments in Texas German (by Boas, Hans C.); 13. Gender assignment of English loanwords in Pennsylvania German: Is there a feminine tendency? (by Page, B. Richard); 14. section 3. Syntax I - Verb clusters; 15. Synchrony and diachrony of verb clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch (by Louden, Mark L.); 16. Looking for order in chaos: Standard convergence and divergence in Mennonite Low German (by Kaufmann, Goz); 17. section 4. Syntax II - The syntax of Cimbrian German; 18. 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 (by Abraham, Werner); 19. Diachronic clues to grammaticalization phenomena in the Cimbrian CP (by Padovan, Andrea); 20. Hidden verb second: The case of Cimbrian (by Grewendorf, Gunther); 21. Revisiting the Wackernagelposition: The evolution of the Cimbrian pronominal system (by Bidese, Ermenegildo); 22. section 5. Syntax III - The syntax of Pennsylvania German; 23. Changes in frequency as a measure of language change: Extraposition in Pennsylvania German (by Fitch, Gesche Westphal); 24. From preposition to purposive to infinitival marker: The Pennsylvania German fer...zu construction (by Borjars, Kersti); 25. section 6. Pragmatics & Conversation analysis; 26. Word choice, turn construction, and topic management in German conversation: Adverbs that are sensitive to interactional positioning (by Betz, Emma); 27. Texas German discourse pragmatics: A preliminary study of the English-origin discourse markers of course, see, and now (by Weilbacher, Hunter); 28. Index