Pennsylvania Dutch
by Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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About this eBook
- Author
- Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
- Title
- Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German With an Infusion of English
- Credits
- Produced by David Starner, Matthias Grammel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PF: Language and Literatures: West Germanic
- Subject
- Pennsylvania German dialect
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48417
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48417
- Release Date
- March 5, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH.
- 2.NOTICE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.PENNSYLVANISCH DEITSCH.
- 5.CHAPTER I. — People—History—Location—Condition.
- 6.CHAPTER II. Phonology of Pennsylvania Dutch. — § 1. Use of the Alphabet. — § 2. The Vowels. — § 3. The Dipthongs. — § 4. Nasal Vowels and Dipthongs. — § 5. The Consonants. — § 6. Stein or Schtein? — § 7. Vowel Changes. — § 8. Dipthong Changes. — § 9. Words lengthened. — § 10. Words shortened.
- 7.CHAPTER III. Vocabulary.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. Gender. — § 1. Gender of English Words in Pennsylvania German. — § 2. The German Genders.
- 9.CHAPTER V. — § 1. The English Infusion. — § 2. Newspapers.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. — Syntax.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. Comparisons with other Dialects. — § 1. PG. not Swiss . — § 2. PG. not Bavarian . — § 3. PG. not Suabian . — § 4. PG. not Alsatian . — § 5. PG. is akin to several South German Dialects.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. Examples. — § 1. Wiidǝr aa˛geschmiirt. — § 2. Wii kummt ǝs? — §3. — § 4. Anglicised German.
- 13.CHAPTER IX. English Influenced by German. — § 1. German Words introduced. — § 2. Family Names Modified.
- 14.CHAPTER X. Imperfect English. — § 1. Broken English. — § 2. The Breitmann Ballads.
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