2. The Pennsylvania Germans and their language(s)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Tables and Figures XI
5. Abbreviations XIII
6. Outline XV
7. Part I: Theoretical and sociohistoric background
8. 1. Theoretical background 3
9. 2. The Pennsylvania Germans and their language(s) 34
10. Part II: Data analyses
11. 3. The PG data corpus 97
12. 4. Semantic-syntactic changes: Form-meaning and form-function relationships 110
13. 5. Structural variation and incipient change 178
14. 6. Verb position in complement dass-clauses 187
15. 7. Extraposition of prepositional phrases 207
16. 8. Stranded prepositions in Pennsylvania German 230
17. 9. General conclusions and implications 276
18. Appendix 289
19. Bibliography 295
20. Index 317