Studies on German-Language Islands

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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 | pp. i–viii

Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii

List of abbreviations | pp. ix–x

List of contributors | pp. xi–xii

Why study Sprachinseln from generative or structural perspectives? Introductory remarks

Michael T. Putnam | pp. 1–10

Section 1. Phonetics & Phonology | pp. 11–64

On final laryngeal distinctions in Wisconsin Standard German

Renee Remy | pp. 13–32

Past participles in Mòcheno: Allomorphy, alignment and the distribution of obstruents

Birgit Alber | pp. 33–64

Section 2. Morphology & Lexical studies | pp. 65–162

Plautdietsch gender: Between Dutch and German

Annemarie Toebosch | pp. 67–110

Anaphors in contact: The distribution of intensifiers and reflexives in Amana German

Michael T. Putnam | pp. 111–128

Lexical developments in Texas German

Hans C. Boas and Marc Pierce | pp. 129–150

Gender assignment of English loanwords in Pennsylvania German: Is there a feminine tendency?

B. Richard Page | pp. 151–162

Section 3. Syntax I - Verb clusters | pp. 163–230

Synchrony and diachrony of verb clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch

Mark L. Louden | pp. 165–186

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

Göz Kaufmann | pp. 187–230

Section 4. Syntax II - The syntax of Cimbrian German | pp. 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 | pp. 233–278

Diachronic clues to grammaticalization phenomena in the Cimbrian CP

Andrea Padovan | pp. 279–300

Hidden verb second: The case of Cimbrian

Günther Grewendorf and Cecilia Poletto | pp. 301–346

Revisiting the Wackernagelposition: The evolution of the Cimbrian pronominal system

Ermenegildo Bidese | pp. 347–368

Section 5. Syntax III - The syntax of Pennsylvania German | pp. 369–412

Changes in frequency as a measure of language change: Extraposition in Pennsylvania German

Gesche Westphal Fitch | pp. 371–384

From preposition to purposive to infinitival marker: The Pennsylvania German fer…zu construction

Kersti Börjars and Kate Burridge | pp. 385–412

Section 6. Pragmatics & Conversation analysis | pp. 413–474

Word choice, turn construction, and topic management in German conversation: Adverbs that are sensitive to interactional positioning

Emma Betz | pp. 415–454

Texas German discourse pragmatics: A preliminary study of the English-origin discourse markers of course, see, and now

Hunter Weilbacher | pp. 455–474

Index | pp. 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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