SEKUNDARSIEDLUNG EINER AUSSENINSEL (NORKA-WOLGAGEBIET) IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA: BESTIMMUNG DER SPRACHLICHEN URHEIMAT. (GERMAN TEXT)

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the dialect of a secondary settlement of Germans in Lincoln, Nebraska. The informants are either immigrants or descendants of those who came to this country from Norka, a farm community in the Lower Volga region. Chapter 1 introduces the study, reviews pertinent literature, describes chapter contents, methodological approach and the phonological and morphological formats. Chapter 2 presents relevant Russian and American historical backgrounds and data about the informants. Chapter 3 lists and describes the idiom\u27s phonemic inventory. Chapter 4 lists distinctive phonemic and allophonic features, minimal and subminimal pairs, idiolectal features, phonemic combinations, syntactic and word stress, intonation and juncture. Chapter 5 presents grammatical features and morphophonemic variations. Chapter 6 details the idiom\u27s word-building techniques and selected English and Russian loanwords. Chapter 7 summarizes leveling, blending and compromising processes and provides sound and word comparisons between the idiom and dialects in Germany. Conclusions: linguistically, the dialectal features generally fit the Middle-Hessian dialect area of Germany, while others are found in the Hesse-Nassau and South-Hessian areas; some find no exact correlation in Germany