Research in Progress

I'd be happy to share research and "in preparation" manuscripts for commentary and suggestions. Some of these are manuscripts that need polishing, others are chaotic notes on a page. Please contact me.

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Cultural Studies

​​Brown, Joshua R. "Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Art Tombstones."

Germanic Linguistics

Bousquette, Joshua, Joshua R. Brown, Michael T. Putnam, Joseph Salmons. The Linguistic Diversity of German: Sociolinguistic and Structural Variation in Europe and the Diaspora

Heritage Language Linguistics

Auer, Anita, Joshua R. Brown, and Angela Hoffman. "Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Language Islands in the Americas: Tracing the Development from Immigrant Languages to Postvernacularity."​

​Brown, Joshua R. "Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch."

Brown, Joshua R., and Angela Hoffman. "Heritage Swedish Across the Lifespan in a Minnesotan Family."

​​Brown, Joshua R. and Luca Ciletti "Heritage German across Generations in Eau Claire, Wisconsin"

Jóhannsdóttir, Kristín Margrét, and Joshua R. Brown. "Language and Life in New Iceland."

Language Shift

Brown, Joshua R., and Joseph Salmons. "A Verticalization Theory of Language Shift." In The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities.

Brown, Joshua R. "Language and Religious Shift in Central Pennsylvania." In The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities.

Brown, Joshua R. Language Shift and Religious Change in Amish Appalachia.

Linguistic Landscapes

​Brown, Joshua R. "The Diachronicity of Minneapolis's Linguistic Landscape."

Brown, Joshua R. "Historical Linguistic Landscapes and Postvernacularity."

Syntax

​Brown, Joshua R., and Michael T. Putnam. "Bending the Rules: Modality and V2 in Pennsylvania Dutch."