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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Howell, Robert B. |
| Title, Analytic | German immigration and the development of regional variants of American English: Using contact theory to discover our roots |
| 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 | 190-212 |
| Series Editor | Geitz, Henry |
| Series Title | Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies |
| Abstract | Any study of the history of the German language in America is of necessity a study of languages in contact, for no matter how isolated a German-speaking community may have been, its speech patterns inevitably reflect the continuing influence of the dominant language in the United States and much of Canada, namely English. Generally speaking, the influence exerted by English on German results from borrowing features of American English into North American dialects of German. A second type of contact-based influence is the influence of German on regional variants of American English. This influence results from native speakers of German imposing lexical and structural features of German onto their spoken English. This imposition of German features onto English is often referred to in lay terms as German coloring, a German accent or a prevalence of Germanisms. The German speaker will impose the structural characteristics of German onto English. It is this process of imposition -- and its effects on regional variants of English -- that will be the topic of this paper |
| Call Number | MKI PF 5925 G47 1993 |
| MKI Terms | Language, German (US) -- Dialects/ Language, German (US) -- Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Languages in contact/Dialects |