In:Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel
Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics 10] 2025
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 27 November 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/sigl.10.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/sigl.10.toc
Table of contents
Chapter 1.A lasting legacy: Honoring William D. Keel’s contributions to language contact
research
1
B. Richard Page
Michael T. Putnam
Chapter 2.Varieties of Standard German in the L2 German
language classroom 7
language classroom 7
Jörg Meindl
Chapter 3.Heritage German across generations in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin 31
Wisconsin 31
Joshua R. Brown
Luca Ciletti
Chapter 4.Language change came when our people were ready for it: A sociolinguistic history of the East Frisian community in Grundy
County, Iowa
62
Maike Rocker
Chapter 5.Fast forward: Community development among recent Mennonite immigrants in
Kansas
93
Nora Vosburg
Chapter 6.“And the cow jumped over … the fence?”: On the development and origin of a German American linguistic
legend
115
Mark L. Louden
Chapter 7.Avoiding (total) collapse: On the potential role of maintaining differences between heritage
language phonological systems
131
Robert Klosinski
Katharina Schuhmann
Chapter 8.The for … zu construction in Texas German
157
Marc Pierce
Hans C. Boas
Chapter 9.Language contact and relative clause formation: The case of wenn and lež in Zarzer
German
185
Andrew Hoffman
Chapter 10.Optimizing gender of English loanwords
in Pennsylvania Dutch 207
in Pennsylvania Dutch 207
B. Richard Page
Ashley Roccamo
Chapter 11.A spanning approach to bilingual representations: Initial explorations
238
David Natvig
Erin Pretorius
Michael T. Putnam
Matthew T. Carlson
Subject index
275
