Doris Stolberg

Die koloniale und postkoloniale Toponomastik verortet sich an der Schnittstelle von Koloniallinguistik und Onomastik. Toponyme eignen sich in besonderer Weise für die Versprachlichung von Herrschaftswünschen und -ansprüchen und die Fixierung von Macht durch Sprache. Toponymische (Um-)Benennungen waren Teil des Sprachhandelns der Kolonisatoren sowohl im kolonisierten Raum als auch im Ausgangsgebiet der Kolonialmächte. In den hier zusammengestellten Beiträgen werden unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Mikrotoponymen und Urbanonymen zwei übergeordnete Fragestellungen bearbeitet: Auf welche Weise und in welcher Form spiegeln Benennungen und Umbenennungen eine koloniale Weltsicht wider? Wie tragen Praktiken der Benennung und Umbenennung zur Fixierung einer kolonialen Weltsicht bei? Wie werden sie andererseits funktionalisiert, um zu Dekolonisierungsprozessen beizutragen? Der Band bietet einen breiten Einblick in aktuelle Forschungsthemen der kolonialen und postkolonialen Mikrotoponomastik. Er zeigt sowohl die interdisziplinären Verbindungen des Forschungsgebietes, z. B. zu Geschichte und Kartographie, als auch vielfältige Fokussierungen in Bezug auf koloniale, kolonial intendierte und postkoloniale Kontexte.

The book investigates the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change based on empirical data from Pennsylvania German (PG), a variety of German in long-term contact with English. Written data published in local print media from Pennsylvania (USA) between 1868 and 1992 are analyzed with respect to semantic changes in the argument structure of verbs, the use of impersonal constructions, word order changes in subordinate clauses and in prepositional phrase constructions. The research objective is to trace language change based on diachronic empirical data, and to assess whether existing models of language contact make provisions to cover the long-term developments found in PG. The focus of the study is thus twofold: first, it provides a detailed analysis of selected semantic and syntactic changes in Pennsylvania German, and second, it links the empirical findings to theoretical approaches to language contact. Previous investigations of PG have drawn a more or less static, rather than dynamic, picture of this contact variety. The present study explores how the dynamics of language contact can bring about language mixing, borrowing, and, eventually, language change, taking into account psycholinguistic processes in (the head of) the bilingual speaker.

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