Auxiliary tun in Texas German

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dc.contributor.advisorBoas, Hans Christian, 1971-en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPierce, Marcen
dc.creatorBlevins, Margaret Marieen
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-9414-152Xen
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-09T21:06:22Zen
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:29:00Z
dc.date.available2015-11-09T21:06:22Zen
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:29:00Z
dc.date.issued2015-08en
dc.date.submittedAugust 2015en
dc.date.updated2015-11-09T21:06:22Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractThis report explores the functions of auxiliary tun ('to do') in Texas German over the past 40 years using data from Gilbert (1965, 1972), Guion (1996), and the Texas German Dialect Project (Boas et al. 2010). It also compares auxiliary tun's uses in present-day Texas German with its uses in German dialects spoken in the regions from which the original Texas German settlers emigrated. The findings in this report suggest that auxiliary tun in present-day Texas German is used in many of the ways that it is used in Low and West Central German dialects. The broad use of auxiliary tun in Texas German could be due to the wide variety of uses of auxiliary tun in its donor dialects. Auxiliary tun's widespread usage may also indicate that Texas German is replacing synthetic with analytic forms as part of language death. The observations in this report can further our understanding of the functions of auxiliary tun in present-day Texas German and contribute to our understanding of language decay and language change within speech islands.en
dc.description.departmentGermanic Studiesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2DC90en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/32345en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectTexas Germanen
dc.subjectLanguage islandsen
dc.subjectSpeech islandsen
dc.subjectAuxiliary tunen
dc.subjectPeriphrastic tunen
dc.titleAuxiliary tun in Texas Germanen
dc.typeThesisen

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