New book: Plautdietsch Grammar

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Plautdietsch Grammar
ELDO NEUFELDT

The stimulus for this project arises out of the realization that the
Nether Saxon Low German dialect, Plautdietsch (a dialect, among others,
of Niederdeutsch), is in dire danger of extinction.  In the author's
childhood (in the 1930s and 40s) the dialect was still widly spoken in
Central Kansas and in various areas of Canada.  Today there is a great
need for help for many  people whose parents spoke the dialect but did
not pass it down to the next generation.  This brief grammar seeks to
help fill that need.
The work consists of 15  lessons, beginning with the smallest units of
language, the letters of the alphabet and their sounds, moving from
there to words,  individual lessons on each of the parts of speech and
their uses.  Next come lessons on the combination of words in their
proper relationships in the construction of sentences, and finally the
combinations of sentences into texts as the largest unit of language.
The final two lessons cover the areas of times and numbers.   Each
lesson consists of 1) grammatical material, 2) a vocabulary, 3) a brief
narrative to be read, and 4) two sets of exercises, one in English and
one in Plautdietsch.

ISBN 3895866156.
LINCOM Studies in Germanic Linguistics 08.
Ca. 60 pp. EUR 25.21 / USD 31.50 / DM 49.30 / # 19.90.



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