Associate Professor I teach courses in sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, working primarily within the Germanic family of languages. My research seeks to better understand the social factors and typological tendencies affecting language change; and the social, economic and community factors that affect language shift, particularly in heritage communities. A large part of my research is focused on heritage languages, or: linguistic communities of bilingual speakers whose mother tongue differs from the language of the society at large. I study both the linguistic effects of bilingualism in these contact varieties, as well as the sociological factors affecting language shift. Additionally, I work on diachronic change in Germanic, including the development and progression of complementizer agreement as a linguistic cycle; and language contact in early Germanic. Recent publications include articles in American Speech and Language Learning. Current projects include The Linguistic Diversity of German: Sociolinguistic and Structural Variation in Europe and the Diaspora (Oxford University Press), with Josh Brown, Michael Putnam, and Joseph Salmons; and editing The Oxford Handbook of the German Language, with Simon Pickl. Research Areas of Interest: Historical Linguistics Sociolinguistics and Language Variation Specific Research Areas: Sociolinguistics, Heritage language communities, Historical linguistics, Germanic languages Selected Publications Selected Publications: Joshua Bousquette & David Natvig. Heritage Language Home and Community: Gendered Division of Labor and Language Shift.
