Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change

• Päätekijä: Janne Bondi Johannessen (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Joseph C. Salmons (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2015
• Sarja: Studies in Language Variation
• Aiheet: Language; Sociolinguistics; Language change; Germanic linguistics; Language variation
• Linkit: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volu...