Mike Olson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mike Olson is involved.
Articles
2019 Chapter 2. Wisconsin immigrant letters: German transfer to Wisconsin English Keeping 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
2013 Synchronic variation and loss of case: Formal and informal language in a Dutch corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam texts Diachronica 30:3, pp. 353–381 | Article
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