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This volume consists of revised versions of presentations given at a roundtable on “New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact and Synthesis, 50 Years Later” held at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in San Antonio, Texas, in 2017, as well as an introduction by the editors. The roundtable discussed the evolution of historical linguistics since the 1966 symposium on “Directions for Historical Linguistics,” held in Austin, Texas. Six prominent scholars of historical linguistics and sociolinguistics contributed: William Labov (the only surviving author from the 1968 volume), Gillian Sankoff, Elizabeth Traugott, Brian Joseph, Sarah Thomason, and Paul Hopper (a graduate student assistant at the original symposium).
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.
Ulrich Sherk (1703-1766) married Maria Grundbach in 1730, and in 1752 they emigrated from Switzerland to Philadelphia, and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Their only known child, John Sherk (1745/1750-1837), a Mennonite, married Barbara Berg about 1772/1773, and moved in 1795 to Welland County, Ontario. Descendants (some spelling the surname Scherich, Scherck or Schürch) lived in Ontario, British Columbia and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to New York, Michigan, Iowa, California and elsewhere in the United States.
George Goff Hatfield, Sr. (b. 1715) was the father of four sons. One of his sons was Joseph Hatfield (1739-1832) who married twice and was the father of eleven children. One of his children was Ephraim Hatfield (1765-1847) who settled in Kentucky. Descendants live throughout the United States.
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The New Women's Labor History, a special issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, offers the newest scholarship in the field of women's labor history and suggests new directions for labor history--ones that addres