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SUMMARY:Rose Fisher
DESCRIPTION:“Grammatical Gender in Pennsylvania Dutch: A System in Colla
pse?”\n\nPennsylvania Dutch is the native language of over 400\,000 Amis
h and Mennonite sectarians and stands as a shining example of linguistic
resilience in the face of intense pressure to shift to English monoling
ualism. Unsurprisingly\, English has nevertheless had a noticeable impac
t on the development of Pennsylvania Dutch over the course of its 300-ye
ar history in North America. The intensity of language contact has subst
antially grown in the past 50–100 years as the separatist Amish and Menn
onites have had to negotiate with a mainstream English-speaking society
that encroaches ever more on their traditional communities. In this talk
\, Rose Fisher will present some preliminary results of her dissertation
research on grammatical gender inflection in one Amish and one Mennonit
e Pennsylvania Dutch variety. These results show that grammatical gender
is undergoing a widespread paradigmatic shift which impacts nearly all
noun phrases and has further implications for the plural inflectional pa
radigm as well. These developments are more advanced among the Amish as
compared to the Mennonites of Lancaster\, Pennsylvania. Because the soci
olinguistic context of the Amish involves more intense contact with Engl
ish than the Mennonite one does\, this finding has interesting implicati
ons for English contact effects as well as for the robustness of morphol
ogical paradigms.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/r
ose-fisher/
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ender in Pennsylvania Dutch: A System in Collapse?”
Pennsylvania
Dutch is the native language of over 400,000 Amish and Mennonite sectari
ans and stands as a shining example of linguistic resilience in the face
of intense pressure to shift to English monolingualism. Unsurprisingly,
English has nevertheless had a noticeable impact on the development of
Pennsylvania Dutch over the course of its 300-year history in North Amer
ica. The intensity of language contact has substantially grown in the pa
st 50–100 years as the separatist Amish and Mennonites have had to negot
iate with a mainstream English-speaking society that encroaches ever mor
e on their traditional communities. In this talk, Rose Fisher will prese
nt some preliminary results of her dissertation research on grammatical
gender inflection in one Amish and one Mennonite Pennsylvania Dutch vari
ety. These results show that grammatical gender is undergoing a widespre
ad paradigmatic shift which impacts nearly all noun phrases and has furt
her implications for the plural inflectional paradigm as well. These dev
elopments are more advanced among the Amish as compared to the Mennonite
s of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Because the sociolinguistic context of the
Amish involves more intense contact with English than the Mennonite one
does, this finding has interesting implications for English contact eff
ects as well as for the robustness of morphological paradigms.
For
more details: ht
tps://events.la.psu.edu/event/rose-fisher/
LOCATION:102 Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
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