Pennsylvania German in the American Midwest
By: Steven Hartman Keiser
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham and London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822367697
Subjects: Morphology; Lexicology; Pennsylvania German dialect; Language; German Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of Pennsylvania German: from Europe to the Midwest; title: Variation in Pennsylvania German: previous dialectological studies; title: Methods and community descriptions; title: The Midwestern vowel: monophthongization of "a"; title: Midwestern consonants: variation in the liquids "r" and "l"; title: Midwestern words: lexical and morphological variation; title: Regional identity, ethnoreligious ideology, and change.