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Austin, Elizabeth – 1978
An introduction to Pennsylvania German reviews the history of the Pennsylvania Germans' migration to the United States, examines the Pennsylvania German dialect both historically and descriptively, discusses the literature written in the dialect, and looks at its present status and possible future. Because the dialect is an extreme example of…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, German
