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

• Main Author: Janne Bondi Johannessen (auth)
• Other Authors: Joseph C. Salmons (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2015
• Series: Studies in Language Variation
• Subjects: Language; Sociolinguistics; Language change; Germanic linguistics; Language variation
• Online Access: 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...