A Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar

A Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar
Author: Earl C. Haag
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1982
Genre: German language
ISBN: 9780271003160

This book presents the language (Pennsylvania German, Dutch, or Deitsch) developed by the settlers brought to Pennsylvania from the Rhine Valley by William Penn. The settlers' dialects evolved into a formal language which has been spoken and read for three centuries throughout much of Pennsylvania and more recently, in parts of the Middle and Far West, and Canada. This book contains 13 readings--on such topics as school, house, farm, and town, as well as dates, weather, body parts, and clothing--each with the translations on facing pages and followed by vocabulary and grammatical rules. By the end of the book all major rules of grammar have been covered together with a substantial working vocabulary. An introduction gives an overview of the language and a guide to pronunciation; an appendix presents practice patterns for the serious student; and an index leads to definitions of all vocabulary words.

Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar

Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar
Author: Earl C. Haag
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0271038098

This book presents the language (Pennsylvania German, Dutch, or Deitsch) developed by the settlers brought to Pennsylvania from the Rhine Valley by William Penn. The settlers' dialects evolved into a formal language which has been spoken and read for three centuries throughout much of Pennsylvania and more recently, in parts of the Middle and Far West, and Canada. This book contains 13 readings--on such topics as school, house, farm, and town, as well as dates, weather, body parts, and clothing--each with the translations on facing pages and followed by vocabulary and grammatical rules. By the end of the book all major rules of grammar have been covered together with a substantial working vocabulary. An introduction gives an overview of the language and a guide to pronunciation; an appendix presents practice patterns for the serious student; and an index leads to definitions of all vocabulary words.

A Pennsylvania German Anthology

A Pennsylvania German Anthology
Author: Earl C. Haag
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780945636007

This comprehensive anthology of original Pennsylvania German writings makes accessible a literature that is becoming increasingly rare. The Buffington/Barba system of German sound values has been applied to help the reader understand and appreciate the selections, which provide a view to virtually every facet of Pennsylvania German life.

First Language Attrition

First Language Attrition
Author: Herbert W. Seliger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1991-06-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521348836

Examines linguistic aspects of the attrition or loss of first language abilities in bilinguals.

Studies on German-language Islands

Studies on German-language Islands
Author: Michael T. Putnam
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027205906

The contributions in this volume present cutting-edge theoretical and structural analyses of issues surrounding German-language islands, or "Sprachinseln," throughout the world. The individual topics of study in this volume focus on various aspects of these German-language islands such as (but not limited to) phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of these languages under investigation. Collectively, the body of research contained in this volume explores significantly under-researched topics in the fields of language contact and language attrition and illustrates how this on-going research can be enhanced through the application of formal theoretical frameworks and structural analyses.

Germany and the Americas [3 volumes]

Germany and the Americas [3 volumes]
Author: Thomas Adam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1366
Release: 2005-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1851096337

This comprehensive encyclopedia details the close ties between the German-speaking world and the Americas, examining the extensive Germanic cultural and political legacy in the nations of the New World and the equally substantial influence of the Americas on the Germanic nations. From the medical discoveries of Dr. Johann Siegert, surgeon general to Simon Bolivar, to the amazing explorations of the early-19th-century German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, whose South American and Caribbean travels made him one of the most celebrated men in Europe, Germany and the Americas examines both the profound Germanic cultural and political legacy throughout the Americas and the lasting influence of American culture on the German-speaking world. Ever since Baron von Steuben helped create George Washington's army, German Americans have exhibited decisive leadership not only in the military, but also in politics, the arts, and business. Germany and the Americas charts the lasting links between the Germanic world and the nations of the Americas in a comprehensive survey featuring a chronology of key events spanning 400 years of transatlantic history.

Historical Linguistics 1993

Historical Linguistics 1993
Author: Henning Andersen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1995-05-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027276498

This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal (illustrated with changes in romance, French, Pennsylvania German, Afrikaans, English, Finnish), changes in syntax (Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Dutch, English) and discourse structure (Old Russian, Old French), morphology (German, Turkic), phonology (Romance, Italian, French, German, Old English, English). Several papers include sociolinguistic, areal, and typological perspectives on change; a few are specifically concerned with reconstruction or with the principles of reconstruction, and several demonstrate the continued importance of the philological methods in the study of texts.

Investigating Obsolescence

Investigating Obsolescence
Author: Nancy C. Dorian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1992-09-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521437578

This collection will certainly stimulate further and better co-ordinated research into a topic of direct relevance to sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics.