Table of contents
The study of Germanic heritage languages in the Americas
Part I. Acquisition and attrition
Word Order Variation in Norwegian Possessive Constructions: Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition
Attrition in an American Norwegian Heritage Language Speaker
Reexamining Icelandic as a Heritage Language in North America
Part II. Phonetic and phonological change
Heritage Language Obstruent Phonetics and Phonology: American Norwegian and Norwegian-American English
The History of Front Rounded Vowels in New Braunfels German
Part III. (Morpho-)syntactic and pragmatic change
Functional Convergence and Extension in Contact: Syntactic and Semantic Attributes of the Progressive Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch
Hybrid Verb Forms in American Norwegian and the Analysis of the Syntactic Relation between the Verb and its Tense
Discourse Markers in the Narratives of New York Hasidim: More V2 Attrition
Part IV. Lexical change
Maintaining a Multilingual Repertoire: Lexical Change in American Norwegian
How Synagogues Became Shuls: The Boomerang Effect in Yiddish-Influenced English, 1895-2010
Phonological Non-integration of Lexical Borrowings in Wisconsin West Frisian
Borrowing Modal Elements into American Norwegian: The Case of suppose(d)
Part V. Variation and real-time change
Changes in a Norwegian Dialect in America
On Two Myths of the Norwegian Language in America: Is it Old-Fashioned? Is it Approaching the Written Bokmål Standard?
Coon Valley Norwegians Meet Norwegians from Norway: Language, Culture and Identity among Heritage Language Speakers in the U. S.
Variation and Change in American Swedish
On the Decrease of Language Norms in a Disintegrating Language
Index of languages and dialects
Index of authors
Index of subjects