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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...

The relationship between language and colonialism is increasingly focussed in linguistic research in the German-speaking academic landscape. The present volume reflects different areas of research in colonial linguistics: the investigation of language contact in colonialism, the analysis of colonial discourse(s) and colonial attitudes towards languages and societies, the reconstruction of consequences and effects of colonial language policies and language politics, and the historiography of contemporary linguistic research. This volume centers in particular on the exploration of contacts...