Caroline Smits

List of John Benjamins publications for which Caroline Smits plays a role.

Articles

Smits, Caroline and Jaap van Marle 2015 On the Decrease of Language Norms in a Disintegrating LanguageGermanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 389–405 | Article
This paper deals with the issue of norm awareness in decaying American Dutch, the language of the ethnic Dutch in the American Midwest. It is investigated to what extent inflectional ‘mistakes’ are recognized. This investigation was carried out by means of an acceptability test. These findings are… read more