Changes Between the Lines (eBook)
Diachronic contact phenomena in written Pennsylvania German
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2015
335 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-036925-0 (ISBN)
335 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-036925-0 (ISBN)
< first, it provides a detailed analysis of selected semantic and syntactic changes in Pennsylvania German, and second, it links the empirical findings to theoretical approaches to language contact.
Previous investigations of PG have drawn a more or less static, rather than dynamic, picture of this contact variety. The present study explores how the dynamics of language contact can bring about language mixing, borrowing, and, eventually, language change, taking into account psycholinguistic processes in (the head of) the bilingual speaker.
Previous investigations of PG have drawn a more or less static, rather than dynamic, picture of this contact variety. The present study explores how the dynamics of language contact can bring about language mixing, borrowing, and, eventually, language change, taking into account psycholinguistic processes in (the head of) the bilingual speaker.