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The book investigates the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change based on empirical data from Pennsylvania German (PG), a variety of German in long-term contact with English. Written data published in local print media from Pennsylvania (USA) between 1868 and 1992 are analyzed with respect to semantic changes in the argument structure of verbs, the use of impersonal constructions, word order changes in subordinate clauses and in prepositional phrase constructions.The research objective is to trace language change based on diachronic empirical data, and to assess whether existing models of language contact make provisions to cover the long-term developments found in PG. The focus of the study is thus twofold: first, it provides a detailed analysis of selected semantic and syntactic changes in Pennsylvania German, and second, it links the empirical findings to theoretical approaches to language contact.Previous investigations of PG have drawn a more or less static, rather than dynamic, picture of this contact variety. The present study explores how the dynamics of language contact can bring about language mixing, borrowing, and, eventually, language change, taking into account psycholinguistic processes in (the head of) the bilingual speaker.

Pennsylvania German dialect --- Languages in contact --- Areal linguistics --- Pennsylvania Deitsh dialect --- Pennsylvania Dutch dialect --- Pennsylvanish dialect --- German language --- History --- Influence. --- Dialects --- Pennsylvania German, Language Contact, Language Change.

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German language --- Dialectology --- Pennsylvania --- Pennsylvania German dialect --- Pennsylvania German dialect. --- Languages in contact --- Influence. --- Dialects --- -Pennsylvania German dialect --- -Languages in contact --- -Areal linguistics --- Ashkenazic German language --- Hochdeutsch --- Judaeo-German language (German) --- Judendeutsch language --- Judeo-German language (German) --- Jüdisch-Deutsch language --- Jüdischdeutsch language --- Germanic languages --- Pennsylvania Deitsh dialect --- Pennsylvania Dutch dialect --- Pennsylvanish dialect --- Influence --- -Dialects --- -Influence --- Areal linguistics --- Pennsylvania German dialect - Influence. --- German language - Dialects - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County. --- Languages in contact - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County. --- Pennsylvania [state]

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German language --- Sociolinguistics --- Bilingualism --- Languages in contact --- Mennonites --- Pennsylvania German dialect --- English language --- Language --- Dialects --- 820-087 --- 803.0-087 --- -Languages in contact --- -Mennonites --- -Pennsylvania German dialect --- -Sociolinguistics --- -Language and languages --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Germanic languages --- Pennsylvania Deitsh dialect --- Pennsylvania Dutch dialect --- Pennsylvanish dialect --- Anabaptists --- Baptists --- Christian sects --- Areal linguistics --- Multilingualism --- Engelse literatuur--?-087 --- Duits: dialecten --- -Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Pennsylvania German dialect. --- Language. --- -Engelse literatuur--?-087 --- -820-087 --- 803.0-087 Duits: dialecten --- 820-087 Engelse literatuur--?-087 --- -Pennsylvania Deitsh dialect --- Social aspects --- Bilingualism - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County --- Languages in contact - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County --- Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Language --- English language - Dialects - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County --- Sociolinguistics - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County --- SPRACHKONTAKT --- DEUTSCHE SPRACHE --- BILINGUALISM --- BILINGUISMUS --- SPRACHMINDERHEITEN --- SPRACHGEBRAUCH --- U.S.A.