The Pressure of English on the Pennsylvania German Spoken in Two West Virginia Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8729686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silke Van Ness (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-71 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/455759 |
| OpenAlex | W2326075721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 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 for /os/ 'it' in nounand pronoun-agreement constructions (Van Ness 1990), and errors in plural formation (Dorian 1989). One innovation, however, that sets the PG of West Virginia apart from other areas in the United States and Canada where the language is still spoken is a phonological change in the past participle prefix. Not only does this variant form show a precipitous increase over a 25 year span, but during the same time period it has spread to a neighboring speech community which had previously maintained the standard pronunciation
Archaeology · Geography · German · Linguistics · West virginia · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 1993 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |