Studies on German-Language Islands

1. Table of contents; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. List of abbreviations; 4. List of contributors; 5. Why study Sprachinseln from generative or structural perspectives?: Introductory remarks (by Putnam, Michael T.); 6. Section 1. Phonetics & Phonology; 7. On final laryngeal distinctions in Wisconsin Standard German (by Remy, Renee); 8. Past participles in Mocheno: Allomorphy, alignment and the distribution of obstruents (by Alber, Birgit); 9. Section 2. Morphology & Lexical studies; 10. Plautdietsch gender: Between Dutch and German (by Toebosch, Annemarie); 11. Anaphors in contact: The distribution of intensifiers and reflexives in Amana German (by Putnam, Michael T.); 12. Lexical developments in Texas German (by Boas, Hans C.); 13. Gender assignment of English loanwords in Pennsylvania German: Is there a feminine tendency? (by Page, B. Richard); 14. section 3. Syntax I - Verb clusters; 15. Synchrony and diachrony of verb clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch (by Louden, Mark L.); 16. Looking for order in chaos: Standard convergence and divergence in Mennonite Low German (by Kaufmann, Goz); 17. section 4. Syntax II - The syntax of Cimbrian German; 18. Spoken syntax in Cimbrian of the linguistic islands in Northern Italy- and what they (do not) betray about language universals and change under areal contact with Italo-Romance (by Abraham, Werner); 19. Diachronic clues to grammaticalization phenomena in the Cimbrian CP (by Padovan, Andrea); 20. Hidden verb second: The case of Cimbrian (by Grewendorf, Gunther); 21. Revisiting the Wackernagelposition: The evolution of the Cimbrian pronominal system (by Bidese, Ermenegildo); 22. section 5. Syntax III - The syntax of Pennsylvania German; 23. Changes in frequency as a measure of language change: Extraposition in Pennsylvania German (by Fitch, Gesche Westphal); 24. From preposition to purposive to infinitival marker: The Pennsylvania German fer...zu construction (by Borjars, Kersti); 25. section 6. Pragmatics & Conversation analysis; 26. Word choice, turn construction, and topic management in German conversation: Adverbs that are sensitive to interactional positioning (by Betz, Emma); 27. Texas German discourse pragmatics: A preliminary study of the English-origin discourse markers of course, see, and now (by Weilbacher, Hunter); 28. Index