UID:
almahu_9949724273902882
Format:
1 online resource (335 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789027247100
Series Statement:
Studies in Germanic Linguistics Series ; v.8
Content:
In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of English, German, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans, and Pennsylvania Dutch, the contributions explore 1) linguistic structure and change; 2) migration, contact, and change; 3) vernacular sources and change; or 4) historical sociolinguistics.
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Intro -- Investigating West Germanic Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Part I Introduction -- Investigating West Germanic Languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic structure and change -- 3. Migration, contact, and change -- 4. Vernacular sources and change -- 5. Historical sociolinguistics: Past, present, and future -- References -- Part II Linguistic structure and change -- Homorganic lengthening in late Old English revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A bird's eye view of homorganic lengthening -- 3. Evidence of homorganic lengthening in the Ormulum -- 4. The motivation for homorganic lengthening -- 5. The distribution of lengthened reflexes of homorganic lengthening in PDE revisited -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Meter, syntax, and the use of punctuation in the Leipzig fragment of the Hêliand -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 The relationship between L, P, and C -- 2.2 Punctuation in Hêliand manuscripts -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The semantics and grammatical status of -frei -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The category of semi-affix -- 3. The status of -frei -- 3.1 The morpho-phonological properties of -frei -- 3.2 The semantics of -frei -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Een mooi paar mouwen -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research -- 3. Middle Dutch mooi 'showing off' -- 4. A Germanic etymology for mooi -- 5. The origin of mouw 'sleeve' -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Part III Migration, contact, and change -- Sound change, analogy, and urban koineization in the regularization of verbs in late fourteenth-century English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Terminological preliminaries -- 3. The Great-English-Verb-Regularization hypothesis -- 4. Early Middle English verbal inflection -- 5. Middle English verbal inflection after 1350.
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5.1 Sir Firumbras3 -- 6. Quantitative findings from the LAEME corpus, Sir Firumbras, and the MED citations -- 7. Regularization of strong and Type-1 weak verbs in Sir Firumbras -- 8. The role of London koineization in the collapse of the Type-1-Type-2 present-tense distinction -- 9. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Vowel lowering, consonant cluster simplification, and koineization in the history of Pennsylvania Dutch -- 1. Pennsylvania Dutch and Palatine German -- 2. Short vowel lowering before /r/ in Palatine German and Pennsylvania Dutch -- 3. Vocalic change and koineization in Pennsylvania Dutch -- Stage I (Trudgill 2004: 83-99) -- Stage II (Trudgill 2004: 100-112) -- Stage III (Trudgill 2004: 113-128) -- 4. Incipient koineization prior to emigration? -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Lexicalizing vernacular architecture in the Cape Dutch Vernacular -- 1. The formation of a contact language at the Cape of Good Hope -- 2. Lexification of the Cape Dutch Pidgin -- 3. "You may ask yourself: 'What is that beautiful house?'" -- 4. "Same as it ever was" -- References -- Part IV Vernacular sources and change -- Weaving data strands together -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background information -- 2.1 Supralocalization processes and urbanization -- 2.2 A brief socio-economic history of Norwich -- 3. Linguistic case studies -- 3.1 Data sources -- 3.2 Third person indicative present tense (singular and plural) -- 3.2.1 Previous literature and method -- 3.2.2 Results and discussion -- 3.3 Periphrastic DO -- 3.3.1 Previous literature and method -- 3.3.2 Results and discussion -- 4. A first step towards assembling Norwich's historical urban vernacular -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Investigating change from a perspective of continuity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Diachronic accounts of two-verb clusters in Dutch.
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3. Local language use and assumptions of sociohistorical and sociolinguistic stability -- 4. Contact: A disruptor of continuity and facilitator of change -- 5. Motivating perspectives of continuity and change: The sociohistorical context -- 6. Investigating change from a perspective of continuity -- 7. Conclusion -- Manuscript sources -- -- -- -- -- -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B. -- Non-native communication in eighteenth-century maritime circles -- 1. Early and Late Modern migrants in the Dutch Republic -- 2. Communicative practices of migrants -- 3. Confiscated papers: Letters as Loot -- 4. Ways of finding non-native communication -- 5. Checking identified individuals and their literacy -- 6. Results of a quest for migrants and their backgrounds -- 6.1 The number of letter writers and their origin -- 6.2 Language choice and linguistic characteristics -- 7. The complex regions of origin9 -- 8. Letter writers from the North Frisian islands -- 8.1 Bernardus and Daniel Knuttel: Interjections, mijn and a few German traces -- 8.2 Forms of address, mijn and deviating orthographical and phonological features -- 8.3 Preliminary conclusions -- 9. Letter writers from East Frisia -- 9.1 The reflexive: A Frisian characteristic -- 9.2 Another language choice -- 9.3 Similar formulae, deviating orthographical and phonological features -- 9.4 Preliminary conclusions -- 10. Conclusions, reflection and future research -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Websites -- Part V Historical sociolinguistics -- The dialect of Vriezenveen -- 1. Introduction2 -- 2. The history of Vriezenveen -- 3. The dialect -- 3.1 Vriezenveens as an eastern dialect -- 3.2 Vriezenveens as an eastern dialect with western influences -- 3.3 Vriezenveens as a northeastern dialect -- 3.4 Vriezenveens as a specific dialect -- 3.5 Origins of the Vriezenveen dialect.
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3.6 Other aspects of the dialect -- 4. The interviews10 -- 5. The results -- 6. Additional considerations -- Dedication -- References -- Appendix A. The sentences presented -- Appendix B. The scores -- Exploring past and present layers of multilingualism in Flemish-emigrant writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Belgian migration to North America -- 3. Heritage languages and sociolinguistics: Theoretical preliminaries -- 4. Belgian Dutch in the New and Old World -- 4.1 Belgian Dutch in the New World -- 4.2 The historical sociolinguistics of Belgian Dutch in the Old World2 -- 4.3 Implications for the study of Belgian Dutch as a heritage language -- 5. Primary sources and writing context -- 5.1 Ego-documents -- 5.2 The life of brother John3 -- 5.3 The Canadian diary -- 6. Methodology -- 6.1 Analysis -- 7. Results -- 8. Discussion -- 9. Concluding remarks -- References -- An excursion into the lost history of historical sociolinguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The sociolinguistic in early historical linguistics -- 3. The historical in early sociolinguistics -- 4. More direct precursors -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Index.
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