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."

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

Historical Sociolinguistics

​Brown, Joshua R. "Using Historical Documents as a Sociolinguistic Diagnostic."

Language & Religion

Brown, Joshua R. Language & religion.

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."