Description: Drawing on scholarly literature, three decades of fieldwork, and ample historical documents--most of which have never before been made accessible to English-speaking readers--this is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at this unlikely linguistic success story.
Brief description: Mark L. Louden is the Alfred L. Shoemaker, J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic Linguistics and director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Review Quotes: [Pennsylvania Dutch] is written in a very accessible style and provides good information about the Pennsylvania Dutch language.
--Canadian Mennonite