In:Studies on German-Language Islands
Edited by Michael T. Putnam
[Studies in Language Companion Series 123] 2011
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 31 January 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.123.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.123.toc
Table of contents
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Why study Sprachinseln from generative or structural perspectives? Introductory remarks
Section 1. Phonetics & Phonology
On final laryngeal distinctions in Wisconsin Standard German
Past participles in Mòcheno: Allomorphy, alignment and the distribution of obstruents
Section 2. Morphology & Lexical studies
Plautdietsch gender: Between Dutch and German
Anaphors in contact: The distribution of intensifiers and reflexives in Amana German
Lexical developments in Texas German
Gender assignment of English loanwords in Pennsylvania German: Is there a feminine tendency?
Section 3. Syntax I - Verb clusters
Synchrony and diachrony of verb clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch
Looking for order in chaos: Standard convergence and divergence in Mennonite Low German
Section 4. Syntax II - The syntax of Cimbrian German
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
Diachronic clues to grammaticalization phenomena in the Cimbrian CP
Hidden verb second: The case of Cimbrian
Revisiting the Wackernagelposition: The evolution of the Cimbrian pronominal system
Section 5. Syntax III - The syntax of Pennsylvania German
Changes in frequency as a measure of language change: Extraposition in Pennsylvania German
From preposition to purposive to infinitival marker: The Pennsylvania German fer…zu construction
Section 6. Pragmatics & Conversation analysis
Word choice, turn construction, and topic management in German conversation: Adverbs that are sensitive to interactional positioning
Texas German discourse pragmatics: A preliminary study of the English-origin discourse markers of course, see, and now
Index
