The Catholic Bohemian German of Ellis County, Kansas: A Unique Bavarian Dialect - Couverture souple

Lunte, Gabriele

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3631563248 ISBN 13 : 9783631563243

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2007

Synopsis

This work focuses on the Catholic Bohemian German dialect of Ellis County, Kansas, in the United States. It is a unique Bavarian dialect spoken by descendants of settlers to this area in west central Kansas from Bukovina, then an Austrian province. The Catholic Bohemian Germans were one of two distinct groups of Bukovina immigrants to the Ellis area as early as the 1880s. They found their way to the United States and Kansas via Bukovina from the Bohemian Forest, today situated in the Czech Republic. Their German dialect faces its linguistic demise. This study documents the grammar and the lexicon of the Catholic Bohemian German dialect, based on dialect interviews. In addition it sheds light on its geographical origin in the Bohemian Forest.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Gabriele Lunte is professor of German at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas (USA). Her research interests include cultural and linguistic heritage of Germans in Kansas and the Midwest, language contact, language change, and preservation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631563248
• ISBN 13: 9783631563243
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne