SHWITZER: Amish Shwitzer as a mixed language with closely related parents

Shwitzer：Amish Shwitzer 作为一种与父母密切相关的混合语言

• 批准号: 403803976
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Guido Seiler
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Deutsches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/403803976?language=en
• 关键词: SHWITZER; Amish; Shwitzer; mixed; language

Mixed languages inherit linguistic subsystems from two different parental languages, viz. e.g. Media Lengua with Quechua grammatical structure and Spanish lexicon. Such systematic splits seem to be possible only in mixed languages whose parental languages are genetically and typologically distant from each other. However, Amish Shwitzer (Indiana, USA) is a mixed language derived from two closely related parental languages, namely Bernese Swiss German and Pennsylvania Dutch, whereby grammatical structure is largely Pennsylvania Dutch and Bernese linguistic features are concentrated in the lexicon. It is thus a so far unreported type of mixed language. The proposed project aims at determining the amount and nature of Bernese and Pennsylvania Dutch features in Amish Shwitzer. Furthermore, the project aims at reconstructing the sociolinguistic context under which this group of 19th century Swiss Anabaptist immigrants came into such close contact with Pennsylvania Dutch. The project sheds new light on the conditions and possible outcomes of intensive language contact, since Amish Shwitzer is rather untypical in the context of other known mixed languages. We expect that the proposed study has the potential to revise and refine long-standing assumptions of contact linguistics.

混合语言继承了两种不同母体语言的语言子系统，即。例如，带有克丘亚语语法结构和西班牙语词汇的Media Lengua。这种系统的分裂似乎只有在母语在遗传和类型上彼此相距较远的混合语言中才有可能。然而，Amish Shwitzer(美国印第安纳州)是一种混合语言，源于两种密切相关的父母语言，即伯恩语、瑞士语和宾夕法尼亚州荷兰语，其语法结构主要是宾夕法尼亚州荷兰语，伯恩语的语言特征集中在词汇中。因此，这是一种迄今未被报道的混合语言类型。拟议的项目旨在确定阿米什·什维策中伯恩斯和宾夕法尼亚州荷兰语特征的数量和性质。此外，该项目旨在重建这群19世纪瑞士再洗礼派移民与宾夕法尼亚荷兰人如此密切接触的社会语言学背景。该项目对密集语言接触的条件和可能的结果提供了新的了解，因为阿米什什维策在其他已知混合语言的背景下相当不典型。我们期望这项拟议的研究有可能修订和完善长期以来关于接触语言学的假设。