The Verticalization Model of Language Shift The Great Change in American Communities

Joshua R. Brown, Professor of German and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Joshua R. Brown is Professor of German and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. He is primarily interested in heritage languages, language maintenance and shift, multilingualism, and historical sociolinguistics. His work has appeared in the Journal of Language Contact, Critical
Multilingualism Studies, and American Speech, among others. He is the co-editor of Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (with Simon J. Bronner; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) and editor of a special issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics focusing on heritage
languages.

1. A verticalization theory of language shift, Joshua R. Brown and Joseph Salmons
2. Politics and cooperatives: Verticalization in rural Finnish-American communities of the Upper Midwest, Mirva Johnson
3. The Great Change in midwestern agriculture: Verticalization in Wisconsin German and Wisconsin West Frisian heritage communities, Joshua Bousquette
4. The Great Change and the shift from Norwegian to English in Ulen, Minnesota, David Natvig
5. Language shift and religious change in Central Pennsylvania, Joshua R. Brown
6. Internal verticalization and community maintenance: The story of North Carolina Cherokee, Benjamin E. Frey
7. The verticalization model of language shift from a population-structure perspective: A commentary, Salikoko S. Mufwene
8. The verticalization model of language shift from a historical sociolinguistic perspective: A commentary, Anita Auer
9. Reflecting on the commentaries, Joshua Bousquette, Joshua R. Brown, Benjamin E. Frey, Mirva Johnson, David Natvig, and Joseph Salmons