Category: German Literature
The reciprocal influence of languages affords an interesting subject of investigation, and it is the object of this essay to present an outline of a dialect which has been formed within a century, and which continues to be spoken, subject to the influences which developed it....
The reciprocal influence of languages affords an interesting subject of investigation, and it is the object of this essay to present an outline of a dialect which has been forme...
2. CHAPTER II.In his "Key into the Languages of America," London, 1643, Roger Williams says that "the life of all language is pronuntiation"--and in the comparison of dialects it deserves esp...
3. CHAPTER III.The vocabulary of PG. has but few synonyms, a single word being used where High German has several, as 'plats' (place) for G. _platz_ and _ort_. Of the German words for _horse_...
4. CHAPTER IV.German gender and declension might be said to be in a state of barbarism, were it not that some of the languages of savages have refinements which are wanting in the tongues of...
5. CHAPTER V.Pennsylvania German has long been recognised as a dialect with certain English words, which are sometimes inflected in the German manner. Sportive examples were quoted in the la...
6. CHAPTER VI.The confusion of forms in the declension of German articles, pronouns, and adjectives, as given in print, is avoided in dialects, and on the upper Rhine all classes use the masc...
7. CHAPTER VII.PG. has both 'ær iss' and 'ær isch' (he is) according to the locality, of which the latter may be less common. The Rev. D. Ziegler (a native, like myself) refers the 'isch' vari...
8. Chapter VIII. (_Wiidǝr aa˛geschmiirt_), to the Philological Society,on communicating this paper, 3 June, 1870, Dr. E. Mall, an Alsatian, who was present, remarked that it reminded him throughout of his native dialect, of which he thoroughly reco...
9. CHAPTER VIII.¶ 1. Dass dii meed ǝn wunnǝrbaarǝr schtǝff sin, wen [wann?] sii f'r mennǝ ausgrukǝ, wærd iir aa schun ausgefunnǝ hawǝ. Sii sin so schlippǝrich wii ǝn fisch, un wan m'r meent m'r...
10. CHAPTER IX.If the Germans of Pennsylvania adopted many words from English, the English speaking population applied the appellation of _German_ or _Dutch_ to unfamiliar varieties of objects...
11. CHAPTER X.Specimens of English as badly spoken by Germans who have an imperfect knowledge of it, are common enough, but they seldom give a proper idea of its nature. The uncertainty betwe...