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

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

What are the points of contact between the study of language and the study of history? What are t...

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

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...

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