Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Outline -- Part I: Theoretical and sociohistoric background -- 1. Theoretical background -- 2. The Pennsylvania Germans and their language(s) -- Part II: Data analyses -- 3. The PG data corpus -- 4. Semantic-syntactic changes: Form-meaning and form-function relationships -- 5. Structural variation and incipient change -- 6. Verb position in complement dass-clauses -- 7. Extraposition of prepositional phrases -- 8. Stranded prepositions in Pennsylvania German -- 9. General conclusions and implications -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index