German dialect in Texas
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Nov 27 16:22:02 UTC 2006
At 10:59 AM -0500 11/27/06, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>Yes, Wilson, and, alas, like much of West Slavic, that spacek (little
>sparrow) is a loan from German (Spatz).
>
>dInIs
Is it safe to assume that "hacek" (little upside down hat) is from German Hatz?
LH
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>>There's also a Texas Czech dialect. The actress, Sissy Spacek
>>([SpaCEk] = "sparrow"), is probably the best-known member of that
>>community.
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>>-Wilson
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>>On 11/27/06, william salmon <william.salmon at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>> Hans Boas of UT Austin has an interesting preservation project for Texas
>>> German. The Houston Chronicle reports, giving some statistics and
>>>history on
>>> the state of German in Texas:
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>>> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4361488.html
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