Noa Goldblatt

Linguistics

Subject: The functions of Pennsylvania German auxiliary verb "duh"

Supervisor: Dr. Eitan Grossman, Dr. Larissa Naiditch

Abstract: In this study the main goal is to present a synchronic description of the functions of the poly-functional periphrastic duh (‘do’) construction in Pennsylvania German (PG). The secondary goal is to examine the PG data in comparison to other Germanic languages