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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Huffines, Marion Lois |
| Title, Analytic | Dying by convergence? |
| 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 | 250-263 |
| Series Editor | Geitz, Henry |
| Series Title | Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies |
| Abstract | The purpose of this study is to investigate how convergence operates in a dying minority language. Evidence of convergent and nonconvergent change is presented from Pennsylvania German in two contrasting environments: 1) among Amish and Mennonite sectarians, who still learn Pennsylvania German natively and speak it as the language for daily discourse; and 2) among the nonsectatirans, in whose communities only older members speak Pennsylvania German, and almost all speakers below age 60 learned English natively and use English for virtually all communicative functions |
| Call Number | MKI PF 5925 G47 1993 |
| MKI Terms | Language, German (US) -- Dialects/ Language, German (US) -- Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/Dialects |