Pennsylvania Dutch (Classic Reprint): A Dialect of South German With an Infusion of English: A Dialect of South German with an Infusion of English (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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This book delves into the intriguing world of Pennsylvania Dutch, a unique dialect spoken by descendants of German immigrants who settled in the US centuries ago. It explores the dialect's origins, tracing its evolution from various South German dialects, and examines its grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, highlighting its distinctive features, such as the use of nasal vowels and diphthongs. The book investigates the influence of English on Pennsylvania Dutch, showcasing examples of adopted words and phrases that have shaped the dialect. It also discusses the social and cultural context of Pennsylvania Dutch, examining its usage in different communities and its role in preserving the cultural heritage of the Pennsylvania Dutch people. Through a comprehensive analysis of Pennsylvania Dutch, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the complexities of language change and the preservation of cultural identity through language.
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Sufficient importance does not seem to have been hitherto attached to watching the growth and change of living lan guages. We have devoted our philological energies to the study of dead tongues which we could not pronounce, and have therefore been compelled to compare by letters rather than by sounds, and which we know only in the form im pressed upon them by scholars of various times. The form in which they were originally written is for ever concealed. The form in which they appear in the earliest manuscripts has practically never been published, but has to be painfully collected from a mass of various readings. The form we know is a critical, conjectural form, patched up by men distinguished for scholarship, but for the most part entirely ignorant of the laws which govern the changes of speech. The very orthography is medieval. We are thus enabled to see as little of the real genesis of language, in form, in sound, in grammatical and logical construction, in short in the real pith of philological investigation - the relation of thought. To speech-sounds - as the study of a full-grown salmon would enable us to judge of the marvellous develop ment of that beautiful fish. Such studies as the present will, I hope, serve among others to stimulate exertion in the new direction. We cannot learn life by studying fossils alone.
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IV. Gender, pp. 24-27. 1. Gender of English Words in Pennsylvania German, p. 24. 2. The German Genders, p. 26.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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