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The book investigates the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change based on
empirical data from Pennsylvania German (PG)  a variety of German in long-term contact with
English. Written data published in local print media from Pennsylvania (USA) between 1868 and
1992 are analyzed with respect to semantic changes in the argument structure of verbs  the use
of impersonal constructions  word order changes in subordinate clauses and in prepositional
phrase constructions.The research objective is to trace language change based on diachronic
empirical data  and to assess whether existing models of language contact make provisions to
cover the long-term developments found in PG. The focus of the study is thus twofold: first  it
provides a detailed analysis of selected semantic and syntactic changes in Pennsylvania German
and second  it links the empirical findings to theoretical approaches to language
contact.Previous investigations of PG have drawn a more or less static  rather than dynamic 
picture of this contact variety. The present study explores how the dynamics of language
contact can bring about language mixing  borrowing  and  eventually  language change  taking
into account psycholinguistic processes in (the head of) the bilingual speaker.

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