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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Nuetzel, Daniel |
| Title, Analytic | Case loss and morphosyntactic change in Haysville East Franconian |
| Author, Monographic | Salmons, Joseph C. |
| Title, Monographic | The German language in America, 1683-1991 |
| Place of Publication | Madison, Wisconsin |
| Publisher | Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison |
| Date of Publication | 1993 |
| Location in Work | 307-321 |
| Series Editor | Geitz, Henry |
| Series Title | Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies |
| Abstract | Languages in the final stages of language death are prone to severe morphological loss. It is claimed that languages with SOV word order which undergo such loss in their case inflection gradually assume SVO work order. In this paper, the author shows that the moribund East Franconian dialect of Haysville, Dubois County, Indiana, has lost most case distinctions within its nominal and pronominal systems without significantly changing its SOV word order. |
| Call Number | MKI PF 5925 G47 1993 |
| MKI Terms | Language, German (US) -- Dialects/ Language, German (US) -- Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Linguistics/ Research/ Indiana/ Dialects |