Mike Olson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mike Olson plays a role.

Articles

Bagwell, Angela, Samantha Litty and Mike Olson 2019 Chapter 2. Wisconsin immigrant letters: German transfer to Wisconsin EnglishKeeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 27–41 | Chapter
This chapter outlines German transfer to Wisconsin English based on the analysis of ego-documents written by German immigrants and their descendants to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century. The analysis of 111 letters from four generations of a German-American family revealed 450 instances… read more
A bias towards formal texts obscures our view of language change and gives a misleading impression of actual developments if ‘changes from below’ are in conflict with ‘changes from above,’ resulting from norms that are visible in particular in formal language. A corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam… read more