Leseprobe
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Pennsylvania German English
2.1. The beginnings
2.2. Geographical distribution of Pennsylvania German speech areas
2.3. Social Aspects of the Pennsylvania German society
3. Lexical borrowings
3.1. Adlexification
3.2. Relexification
4. Phonological borrowings
4.1. The consonants
4.1.1. Plosives
4.1.2. Fricatives
4.2. Vowels
4.3. Later and earlier borrowings
5. The Pennsylvania German Syntax
5.1. Preservation
5.1.1. The subject-object-verb structure
5.1.2. The finite verb remains in second position
5.2. Converge
5.3. Innovation
6. Intonation
6.1. The rising and falling of the terminal pitch
6.1.1. The rising terminal pitch
6.1.2. The falling terminal pitch
6.2. The rise-rise-fall pattern
7. Conclusion
8. Bibliography
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- Kirsten Vera van Rhee (Autor:in), 1993, The Pennsylvania German English - the Language of the Pennsylvania Germans, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/178114
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