Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of abbreviations ix
5. List of contributors xi
6. Why study Sprachinseln from generative or structural perspectives? 1
7. Section 1. Phonetics & Phonology
8. On final laryngeal distinctions in Wisconsin Standard German 13
9. Past participles in Mòcheno 33
10. Section 2. Morphology & Lexical studies
11. Plautdietsch gender 67
12. Anaphors in contact 111
13. Lexical developments in Texas German 129
14. Gender assignment of English loanwords in Pennsylvania German 151
15. Section 3. Syntax I - Verb clusters
16. Synchrony and diachrony of verb clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch 165
17. Looking for order in chaos 187
18. Section 4. Syntax II - The syntax of Cimbrian German
19. Spoken syntax in Cimbrian of the linguistic islands in Northern Italy- and what they (do not) betray about language universals and change under areal contact with Italo-Romance 233
20. Diachronic clues to grammaticalization phenomena in the Cimbrian CP 279
21. Hidden verb second 301
22. Revisiting the Wackernagelposition 347
23. Section 5. Syntax III - The syntax of Pennsylvania German
24. Changes in frequency as a measure of language change 371
25. From preposition to purposive to infinitival marker 385
26. Section 6. Pragmatics & Conversation analysis
27. Word choice, turn construction, and topic management in German conversation 415
28. Texas German discourse pragmatics 455
29. Index 475