This dissertation develops the emerging model of verticalization to account for the social
processes underlying language shift. The verticalization model originates from Roland …

. Introduction* is volume grows from recent collaboration among a group of scholars working
on Germanic immigrant languages spoken in North America, initially faculty and students …

The study presented here is the first contemporary investigation of the subjective compared
to the objective ethnolinguistic vitality of West Frisian. West Frisian is a minority language …

Although heritage language phonology is often argued to be fairly stable, heritage language
speakers often sound noticeably different from both monolinguals and second-language …

In addition to presentations on language structure and the socio-historical setting of
immigrant languages, the Workshops on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA) …

Finite verb placement in German (ic) contact languages has received heightened attention
in recent years. In particular, the occurrence of main clauses with two preverbal constituents …

This chapter examines social and economic changes in the NorwegianAmerican town of
Ulen, Minnesota, changes of the like we argue throughout this book contributed to the shift to …

The present work examines nominal case marking in Wisconsin Heritage German, based on
audio recordings of six speakers made in the late 1940s. Linguistic data provide positive …

This chapter presents a broad foundational notion of interdisciplinarity in historical
sociolinguistics and an argument for increased implementation of true interdisciplinary …

This article reports initial results from an online survey in the East Frisian heritage
community in the United States, inquiring about remaining cultural and linguistic practices …