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SEKUNDARSIEDLUNG EINER AUSSENINSEL (NORKA-WOLGAGEBIET) IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA: BESTIMMUNG DER SPRACHLICHEN URHEIMAT. (GERMAN TEXT)
Abstract
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the dialect of a secondary settlement of Germans in Lincoln, Nebraska. The informants are either immigrants or descendants of those who came to this country from Norka, a farm community in the Lower Volga region. Chapter 1 introduces the study, reviews pertinent literature, describes chapter contents, methodological approach and the phonological and morphological formats. Chapter 2 presents relevant Russian and American historical backgrounds and data about the informants. Chapter 3 lists and describes the idiom's phonemic inventory. Chapter 4 lists distinctive phonemic and allophonic features, minimal and subminimal pairs, idiolectal features, phonemic combinations, syntactic and word stress, intonation and juncture. Chapter 5 presents grammatical features and morphophonemic variations. Chapter 6 details the idiom's word-building techniques and selected English and Russian loanwords. Chapter 7 summarizes leveling, blending and compromising processes and provides sound and word comparisons between the idiom and dialects in Germany. Conclusions: linguistically, the dialectal features generally fit the Middle-Hessian dialect area of Germany, while others are found in the Hesse-Nassau and South-Hessian areas; some find no exact correlation in Germany.
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Recommended Citation
TUCK, MARY LYNN, "SEKUNDARSIEDLUNG EINER AUSSENINSEL (NORKA-WOLGAGEBIET) IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA: BESTIMMUNG DER SPRACHLICHEN URHEIMAT. (GERMAN TEXT)" (1983). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8404818.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8404818