Language Maintenance and Language Death the decline of Texas Alsatian

Summary: This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with minimal change for six generations. Texas Alsatian has maintained lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic features which differentiate it from the prevalent standard-near varieties of Texas German. This study both describes its grammatical features and discusses extra-linguistic factors contributing.

Record details

ISBN: 9789027275035 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9027275033 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9027202885
ISBN: 9789027202888
ISBN: 128049767X
ISBN: 9781280497674
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (269 p.)
Publisher: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	6.4.2 The Texas German community: not "the other"? Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Language Maintenance and Language Death; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of illustrations; Chapter One. Introduction; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 Methodology and data collection; 1.3 What is Texas Alsatian?; 1.3.1 The land of origin; 1.3.2 The Upper Rhenish donor dialect; 1.4 The decline of Texas German dialects; 1.4.1 Linguistic homogeneity versus heterogeneity; 1.4.2 Standard French and German Uberdachung; 1.4.3 Elsasser and Dietsche: Two cultural communities; 1.5 Adopted home of Texas Alsatian: Medina County 2000.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.