This book is a contribution to the history of non-standard or bad German. The origin and developm...

Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the lay...

This book analyses a set of rarely described regional Spanish varieties spoken throughout much of...

Focusing on the sociolinguistic history of Germanic languages, the current volume challenges the ...

The auxiliary do (tun) is one of the most-discussed constructions in West Germanic. In German, th...

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The great linguistic diversity of spoken languages contrasts greatly with the much smaller number...

The contributions to this volume explore eleven key developments in the external history of the G...

This book combines studies of a broad range of minority and minoritized languages from the past a...

The German-Speaking World is an accessible textbook that offers students the opportunity to explo...