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Civil War writings of the Pennsylvania Dutch
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2019Abstract For eighteenth and nineteenth century Pennsylvania Dutch speakers, a variety of German was the language of their books, their newspapers, and their schools. Being far from the European homeland created a hegemonic shift in the linguistic lives of these early German Americans; they were adopting an American regional identity ...
Joshua R Brown
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Synchrony and diachrony of verb clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch
Studies in Language Companion Series, 2011This paper presents the major synchronic facts about verb clusters in modern Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania German) and indicates how they have developed historically. Although Pennsylvania Dutch is descended from primarily Palatine German dialects, the behavior of verb clusters in the modern language is distinct from what is found in European German
Mark L Louden
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The phonotactic patterning of pennsylvania dutch consonants
South African Journal of Linguistics, 1987SUMMARY This paper deals with two aspects of Pennsylvania Dutch. The first section outlines the sociocultural features of Amish society within which Pennsylvania Dutch is spoken. The second section gives an outline of the phonotactic patterning of the initial and final consonants used in Pennsylvania Dutch.
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The Pennsylvania Dutch and The German-American Diaspora in 1790
Journal of Cultural Geography, 1986Previous efforts to determine how many inhabitants of Pennsylvania and other states were of German descent at the taking of the first Federal Census in 1790 have produced estimates that vary greatly. This study presents an improved procedure for using surname analysis to calculate the German stock in post-Revolutionary America, and it offers new data ...
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Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language
Pennsylvania History, 2021exaly +2 more sources