Linguistic Features of Penn'GermanEnglish contact

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Linguistic Features of Penn.German/English contact
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Syntactic

• Borrowing/Merge with english
• Case system (Nom/Acc)
• Mir sin zu (ihm) ihn tschprunge fa hilf
• Complement Struc. Ich bin reddi fer deitsch
  schwetze
• BUT retians SOV
• Ich wees as die Lydia Lattwarrick gleicht

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Lexical

• Lexical reflects cultural contact
• Figgere, as future tense aux. (zelle)
• Food, clothing, everyday items
• Stable because of diglossia

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Sociolinguistic Aspects

• PPG/English diglossia is stable
• Domains are clear and set
• Children learn both necessarily
• NPG is dying, virtually no speakers

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Phonological

• PPG phonology is stable- Domains
• NPG is a dutchified english
• Result of stable/unstable difference

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Questions/Conclusions

• Why Syntactic convergence, yet phonological
  Separation?
• Syntax underlying and affected in order to
  simplify underlying grammar, phonology immediate,
  more salient, corresponds with domain.