Silke Van Ness

Biographic Data

ID5382800
NAMESilke Van Ness
GIVEN NAMESSilke
FAMILY NAMEVan Ness
SIGNATUREVAN NESS S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity at Albany, State University of New York
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX2

  • Playing Musical Chairs in Pronominal Gender Reassignment

    Silke Van Ne, Silke Van NessARTICLEAmerican Speech2000

    Research Article| August 01 2000 PLAYING MUSICAL CHAIRS IN PRONOMINAL GENDER REASSIGNMENT? SILKE VAN NESS SILKE VAN NESS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 295–296. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-295 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation SILKE VAN NESS; PLAYING MUSICAL CHAIRS IN PRONOMINAL GENDER REASSIGNMENT?. American Speech…

  • Signifying female identity through grammatical innovation: A socio-cultural interpretation

    Open AccessSilke Van Ne, Silke Van NessARTICLEWORD1999Cited by: 2References: 8

    The perception of the Amish as an unchanging folk society (Redfield 1947) has long been exposed as a myth (Olshan 1981). The culture's dynamics take the form of rationally controlled and selective change. While this has become accepted as common opinion among scholars, the participation of Amish women in change has only recently been addressed. The shared assumption has been that women typically follow suit. A study of Pennsylvania German has ina…

  • Pennsylvania German in West Virginia as a Linguistic Laboratory

    Silke Van NessARTICLEDialectologia et Geolinguistica1996

  • The Current Status of Research on German Dialects in North America

    Silke Van Ness, Joseph Salmons et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1995

  • Ohio Amish Women in the Vanguard of a Language Change: Pennsylvania German in Ohio

    Silke Van NessARTICLEAmerican Speech1995Cited by: 6References: 1

    Apres avoir presente quelques informations essentielles sur la communaute linguistique amish et sur sa langue (allemand de Pennsylvanie), l'A. examine les causes de changements grammaticaux survenus dans cette langue en situation de contact, en particulier les modifications subies par l'anaphore pronominale dans le systeme du genre

  • Deutsch-Englischer Sprachkontakt: Die Mehrsprachigkeit einer Old Order Amish Gemeinde in Ohio aus soziologischer und interferenzlinguistischer sicht

    Silke Van Ness, Lotti Arter-LamprechtARTICLELanguage1994

  • Whose Habit Is It

    Silke Van NessARTICLEAmerican Speech1994

  • Advances toward a new pronominal grammar in an Ohio Amish community

    Silke Van NessARTICLEWORD1993References: 7

    This paper reports on an incipient change in the pronominal system of Pennsylvania German (PG). The neuter pronoun es ‘it’ is replacing the traditional pronoun sie ‘she’ to refer to certain kinship categories of NPs that are [+ human + female]. The findings show that the new variant is not only generationally differentiated, but that women under age fifty are undeniably in the vanguard of this change. The data are from interviews with conservativ…

  • The Pressure of English on the Pennsylvania German Spoken in Two West Virginia Communities

    Silke Van NessARTICLEAmerican Speech1992Cited by: 1References: 1

    THE CONSEQUENCES OF EXTENSIVE CONTACT with English are evident in many changes in Pennsylvania German (henceforth PG). For example, at the phonological level a retroflexed /r/ and a velarized /l/ are replacing the German sounds; at the morphological and syntactic level a tendency toward rule simplification is occurring, as exemplified by case syncretism (Huffines 1989), leveling of attributive adjectives toward a universal /-e/ ending, preference…