Josh Brown

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Josh Brown plays a role.

Book series

Studies in Germanic Linguistics (SiGL)

Edited by Michael T. Putnam, B. Richard Page and Laura Catharine Smith

ISSN 2452-2120

Articles

Brown, Josh 2024 Lingua francas as evidence of standard language ideology in historical perspective Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article

The paper considers historical lingua francas and standard language ideology from the framework of ‘language history from below’. Although some work has been devoted to mixed forms of language in studies of standardisation, little attention has been paid to lingua francas. This paper focusses on… read more

Caruso, Marinella and Josh Brown 2017 Continuity in foreign language education in Australia: The Language Bonus plan Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:3, pp. 280–310 | Article

This article discusses the validity of the bonus for languages other than English (known as the Language Bonus) established in Australia to boost participation in language education. In subjecting this incentive plan to empirical investigation, we not only address a gap in the literature, but… read more

Brown, Josh and Michael T. Putnam 2015 Functional Convergence and Extension in Contact: Syntactic and Semantic Attributes of the Progressive Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 135–160 | Article

This paper investigates the extension of the progressive aspect in contemporary Pennsylvania Dutch. The scope of convergence in contact varieties is a debated subject in theoretical linguistics; the most recent and promising research finds that convergence in contact is not a simple one-to-one… read more