Mark L. Louden
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mark L. Louden is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2452-2120
2025 Chapter 6. “And the cow jumped over … the fence?”: On the development and origin of a German American linguistic legend Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel, Page, B. Richard and Michael T. Putnam (eds.), pp. 115–130 | Chapter
The most enduring stereotype of German American speech is expressed by variants of a sentence describing a cow or other animal jumping over a fence in which the matrix language is German and the words for ‘jump’ and ‘fence’ are borrowed from English. The underlying message is that German-English… read more
2024 Vowel lowering, consonant cluster simplification, and koineization in the history of Pennsylvania Dutch Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 107–130 | Chapter
Scholars who have investigated the history of Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania German) have come to the unanimous consensus that the language most closely resembles the German dialects of the Palatinate region (Pfalz). This is not surprising, since the majority of the German-speaking immigrants… read more
2011 Synchrony and diachrony of verb clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch Studies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 165–186 | Article
This paper presents the major synchronic facts about verb clusters in modern Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania German) and indicates how they have developed historically. Although Pennsylvania Dutch is descended from primarily Palatine German dialects, the behavior of verb clusters in the modern… read more
2003 Review article: Child language acquisition and language change Diachronica 20:1, pp. 167–183 | Review article
2000 Contact-induced phonological change in Yiddish: Another look at Weinreich’s riddles Diachronica 17:1, pp. 85–110 | Article
SUMMARY This paper investigates contact-induced change in Yiddish on the example of four problematic sets of phonological data from Yiddish dialectology first discussed by Uriel Weinreich (1963). These data, dubbed “riddles in bilingual dialectology” by Weinreich, are problematic for the fact that… read more
1999 Sprachwandel und Sprachmischung im Jiddischen. By Eckhard Eggers Diachronica 16:2, pp. 363–368 | Miscellaneous
1995 Review of Abraham & Bayer (1993): Dialektsyntax Studies in Language 19:1, pp. 264–273 | Review
1992 Language Contact and the Relationship of Form and Meaning in English and German Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics, Lippi-Green, Rosina L. (ed.), pp. 115–126 | Article