Language contact in a mining community: A Study of Variation in Personal Pronouns and Progressive Aspect in Cité Duits

Nantke Pecht

doi:10.26481/dis.20210127np

Language contact in a mining community: A Study of Variation in Personal Pronouns and Progressive Aspect in Cité Duits

Nantke Pecht

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Cité Duits (lit. ‘mining district German’) emerged as a Belgian Dutch-Maaslands-German contact variety among the children of immigrant miners in the coalmining district of Belgian Eisden in the 1930s. Following a sociolinguistic and grammatical framework, this dissertation examines the linguistic character of Cité Duits with a focus on personal pronouns and progressive aspect. It studies the underlying language contact dynamics and explores the emergence and social functions of Cité Duits. For the analysis, the researcher combined methods of data collection from sociolinguistics (e.g. group recordings) and linguistic anthropology (e.g. observations).

Original language	English
Awarding Institution	Maastricht University
Supervisors/Advisors	Cornips, Leonie, Supervisor Auer, P., Supervisor, External person
Award date	27 Jan 2021
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Edition	1
Publisher	LOT
Print ISBNs	9789460933677
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20210127np
Publication status	Published - 27 Jan 2021

Keywords

Doctoral dissertation
linguistics
language and migration
language-dialect contact
Belgian Dutch
German
Limburgish dialects

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Pronominal usage in Cite Duits, a Dutch-German-Limburgish contact variety
Pecht, N., 8 Jun 2021, New Perspectives on Mixed Languages. From Core to Fringe. Mazzoli, M. & Sippola, E. (eds.). De Gruyter Mouton, p. 299-324 (Language Contact and Bilingualism 18).
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Language contact in a mining community: A Study of Variation in Personal Pronouns and Progressive Aspect in Cité Duits

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Pronominal usage in Cite Duits, a Dutch-German-Limburgish contact variety

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