Joe Salmons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxii, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wisconsin is one of the most linguistically rich places in North America. It has the greatest diversity of American Indian languages east of the Mississippi, including Ojibwe and Menominee from the Algonquian language family, Ho-Chunk from the Siouan family, and Oneida from the Iroquoian family. French place names dot the state's map. German, Norwegian, and Polish-the languages of immigrants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-are still...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 441 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to the present day. Joe Salmons explores a range of topics in the history of the language, offering answers to questions such as: How did German come to have so many different dialects and close linguistic cousins like Dutch and Plattdeutsch? Why does German have 'umlaut' vowels and why do they play so many...
