Abstract
At the end of the 19th century it became clear that in the eastern part of the USA a variety of the Dutch language was still in use. This so-called ‘Low Dutch’or ‘Leeg Duits’, now extinct, was used by small groups of speakers in rural areas. For a considerable time ‘Leeg Duits’ functioned as a spoken language for informal purposes only. Consequently, texts containing samples of 18th and 19th-century ‘Leeg Duits’ are rather scarce. In this paper some texts are discussed that may contain authentic data of this language variety.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Akten des XII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Warschau 2010: Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit. Band 4: Sprache in der Literatur / Kontakt und Transfer in der Sprach- und Literaturgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit / Die niederländische Sprachwissenschaft – diachronisch und synchronisch |
Editors | Franciszek Grucza , Anne Betten, Alexander Schwarz |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 339-344 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-631-63204-8 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |