An edition of The life and death of texas German (2009)

The life and death of texas German

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Hans Christian Boas, Hans Chri ...
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An edition of The life and death of texas German (2009)

The life and death of texas German

This volume presents the first major study of Texas German as spoken in the twenty-first century, focusing on its formation and the linguistic changes it has undergone. This New World dialect, formed more than 150 years ago in German communities in central Texas, is an unusual example of a formerly high-status dialect that declined for sociopolitical reasons. An important case study for dialect research, Texas German is now critically endangered and will probably be extinct by 2050. By comparing and contrasting present-day data with data from the German dialects brought to Texas since the 1840s, the volume offers an in-depth analysis of mutual interaction between the German-speaking community and English-speaking Texans, long-term accommodation of Texas German speakers in this new community, and language hybridization on the Texas frontier. The volume also analyzes a number of phonological, syntactic, and morphological changes in Texas German over the past century and examines sociolinguistic aspects of the Texas German community from its foundation to today, providing insight into the dynamics underlying new-dialect formation, diglossia, language shift, language maintenance, and language death. Finally, the volume investigates the rapid disappearance of languages, which has global social and cultural implications for areas beyond linguistics. - Publisher.

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345

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The life and death of texas German
2009, Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society
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Table of Contents

German immigration to Texas
New Braunfels 1845/2000
Diglossia
The founding period 1845/50 : diglossia or standard-with-dialect?
German language domains 1850/90
German langauge domains 1890/1920
German language domains 1920/60 : diglossia English/Texas German
German language domains 1960/2000 : language Shift
Texas German in the Twenty-First Century
German sprachinseln around the world
Koineization : and new-dialect formation
Donor dialects of Texas German
Setting the stage for determining dialect-specific features in Texas German
Development of the vowel system
Consonants
Other phonological developments
Evaluation of phonological data
Case in German
Word order
Loss of preterite
Number
Gender
Language death
Why is Texas German dying?
Language attitudes and language maintenance.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Durham
Series
Publication of the American Dialect Society -- no. 93, Publication of the American Dialect Society -- no. 93.
Other Titles
American Speech. $n vol. 83 (Supplement).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
437/.9764887
Library of Congress
PF5938.5.T4 B63 2009, PF5938.5.T4B63 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
345

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22842987M
ISBN 13
9780822367161
LCCN
2008053647
OCLC/WorldCat
288932945
Library Thing
8140428

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