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Linguistic Substrata in Pennsylvania and Elsewhere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

R. Whitney Tucker
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[A description is given of the peculiarities in the dialect of certain English-speaking persons with a Pennsylvania Dutch background. Such of these as can be traced to German are found to be not phonologic, nor morphologic, but purely syntactic, and lexical. It is argued that we have no right to ascribe a broader influence to ‘substrata‘ that are imperfectly known.)

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 10 , Issue 1-Part1 , March 1934 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © 1934 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 See especially Hirt, Indogermanische Grammatik 1. 61–70, 144.

2 See Stolz-Debrunner, Geschichte der lateinischen Sprache, 53–5, 59.

3 Einführung in das Studium der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft2, 225–39.

4 More precisely, the main stress is put generally on the next to the last accented syllable; see examples in which the main stress is indicated.

5 See note 3, above.

6 This rule would perhaps not apply to dialects of the same language, each readily intelligible to the speakers of the other; here much freer borrowing is possible.