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'Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature' offers new, compelling, and thought-provoking contributions to the field of Germanic Linguistics. Nine authors from three different continents (North America, Europe, and South America) present in this edited volume their latest research on such diverse topics as Old High German, Old Saxon and Early New High German poetry, Yiddish, German Heritage speakers in the U.S., Germanic language periodization, paleography, and gender issues in Modern Standard German.
'Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature' strives to rekindle dialogue and discourse about topics in Germanic Linguistics while at the same time providing innovative and interesting talking points to the discipline in an international, trans-Atlantic framework.
The articles featured in this volume will appeal to students and instructors of Germanic Linguistics alike as well as to anyone interested in this subject.
About the author
Heiko Wiggers was an Associate Professor of German at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Texas at Austin and dedicated 19 years to teaching and research at Wake Forest University. His main areas of research were Low German, endangered languages, sociolinguistics, and Business German. His secondary specializations were German history and foreign language acquisition. He published extensively on the present and past state of the Low German language. Recent publications include: "Niederdeutsch und andere kleine Sprachen auf Wikipedia" (2020, 'Jahrbuch der Klaus-Groth-Gesellschaft,' Band 62, Boyens Verlag), "Wij proat ook Platt: Professional Register and Regional Dialect" (2015, 'International Journal of Language Studies') and "Living with L: H-Speakers' Perception of the L-Variety in Northern Germany" (2012, 'Journal of Germanic Linguistics,' Vol. 24 (4).
