Samantha M. Litty Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism Projekt verlängert Flensburg; Förderung um 3 Jahre verlängert
Dr. Samantha M. Litty - Institut für Frisistik - Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF)
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Stadt - 24943 Flensburg ORCID Institutionen - Name - Institut für Frisistik und Minderheitenforschung - Funktion - Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Sprechstunden Anfragen per E-Mail. Zusatzinformationen Samantha M. Litty ist 2019 als Alexander von Humboldt Stipendiatin nach Flensburg gekommen. 2022 wurde sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Frisistik und Minderheitenforschung. 2023-2026 war sie Leiterin des Projekts “Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism” (DFG Eigene Stelle). Die Projektförderung wurde 2026 auf weitere 3 Jahre verlängert. Die zweite Projektphase konzentriert sich auf das nordfriesische Element in mehrsprachigen Kontexten in dem deutsch-dänsichen Grenzraum im 19. Jahrhundert. Books and Special Issues [voraussichtlich 2026]. Riecken, Claas, Antje Arfsten, Franziska Böhmer, Samantha M. Litty & Lena Terhart (eds.). Das Protokollbuch des Friesenclubs Tonderaner Seminaristen 1874-1894 [Arbeitstitel]. Bräist
Bredstedt: Verlag Nordfriisk Instituut. 2025. Litty, Samantha M. & Karoline Kühl (eds.). Selected Proceedings of the 14th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 14). Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). DOI:https:
bells.v15i1 2025. Litty, Samantha M. & Nils Langer (eds.). Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Focus on minoritized languages past and present. Historical Sociolinguistics. Studies on Language and Society in the Past, Peter Lang. DOI: https:
b21997 Articles in Refereed Journals [voraussichtlich 2027]. Boysen, Henriette, Lena Terhart, Samantha M. Litty & Ruth Kircher. (2026, August 17). Eine Frage der Berufung: Identitätsbildung und Berufseinstieg von Friesischlehrkräften in Nordfriesland. PsyArXiv. https:
2hzfe_v2 [Expected March 2027: Sprachpolitik und Sprachenpolitik, 3. IDS-Verlag Mannheim.] 2026. Litty, Samantha M., Ruth Kircher, & Lena Terhart. Minderheitensprache, heritage language oder Familiensprache? Überlegungen zur Sprachbegrifflichkeit am Beispiel des Nordfriesischen. Sprachpolitik und Sprachenpolitik. 1. IDS-Verlag Mannheim. DOI: https:
13633 2019. Letters home: German-American Civil War soldiers’ letters 1864–1865. In Joshua R. Brown (ed.), Heritage language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 5(2). Article 3, 1–34. DOI: https:
jhsl-2018-0030 2017. A turn of the century courtship: Obstruent variation in personal letters in the Upper Midwest. Sociolinguistica. 31(1).91–108. DOI: https:
soci-2017-0007 2016. Litty, Samantha, David Natvig, Jessica Funtanilla, Hunter Lockwood, James Maedke, Christopher Tabisz & Joseph Salmons. Anything goes: Extreme Polysemy in Lexical-Semantic Change. American Speech. 91(2). 139–165. DOI: https:
00031283-3633096 Refereed Book Chapters, Papers in Festschriften and Proceedings, etc. Submitted. Litty, Samantha M., Ruth Kircher, & Lena Terhart. Minority and heritage language? North Frisian and Haugen’s ecology of language. In Angela Hoffman & Joshua R. Brown (eds.), Haugen Re-visited: Theoretical and Empirical Realities of Heritage Communities. University of Wisconsin Press. [expected publication: late 2026; 8500 words] Submitted. Multilingualism and language policy among policy makers in the Duchy of Schleswig. In Joshua R. Brown & Mark Richard Lauersdorf (eds.), Pursuing the Context(s) of Language Variation and Change: Elaborating the past, Expanding the present, Envisioning the future. Studies in Language Companion Series with John Benjamins Press. [expected publication: 2026; 7500 words] Forthcoming. Kühl, Karoline & Samantha M. Litty. Translocated language communities. In Drinka, Bridget, Terttu Nevalainen & Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. De Gruyter Mouton. [expected publication: 2026] [2026]. Litty, Samantha M. & Joshua Bousquette. Natürlich waren ihre Herzen in Deutschland: Towards an American German postvernacularity. In Anita Auer, Joshua R. Brown, & Angela Hoffman (eds.), Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Heritage Languages in the Americas: Tracing the Development from Immigration to Postvernacularity. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 8000 words. 2025d. The German Midwest. In Jon Lauck (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History 283–301. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190933012. 2025c. Kühl, Karoline & Samantha M. Litty. Methods in heritage language linguistics. In Samantha M. Litty & Karoline Kühl (eds.). Selected Proceedings of the 14th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 14), 1–6. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). DOI: https:
bells.v15i1.4546 2025b. Langer, Nils & Samantha M. Litty. Effects of ideology and policy on practices: Minoritized languages and varieties in historical sociolinguistics. In Samantha M. Litty & Nils Langer (eds.), Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Focus on minoritized languages past and present, 1–14. Historical Sociolinguistics. Studies on Language and Society in the Past. Berlin: Peter Lang. DOI: https:
b21997 2025a. Litty, Samantha M. & Jan Momme Penning. Semi-public writings in the Duchy of Schleswig in the 19th century. In Samantha M. Litty & Nils Langer (eds.), Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Focus on minoritized languages past and present, 89–115. Historical Sociolinguistics. Studies on Language and Society in the Past. Berlin: Peter Lang. DOI: https:
b21997 2024c. Hermann, Andre & Samantha M. Litty. Tønder Teaching Seminary: Biernamen as an indicator of group belonging. In Kristoffer Friis Bøegh & Mette-Marie Møller Svendsen (eds.), Ord & Sag 44. Aarhus, DK: Peter Skautrup Centret for Jysk Dialektforskning. ISSN: 2794-6754. Open Access: https:
ordogsag.v44.152350 2024b. Multilingual Memory Albums in Wisconsin and the Duchy of Schleswig. In Rachyl Hietpas, Mirva Johnson, Laura Moquin, Charlotte Vanhecke & Joe Salmons (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 13), 28–36. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 14(1). DOI: https:
bells.v14i1.4337 2024a. Language dominance in Wisconsin German and English Varieties: Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent Neutralization, 1863–2013. In Israel Sanz-Sanchez (ed.), Language acquisition across the lifespan and language change: Applications in historical sociolinguistics, 234–263. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: https:
ahs.14 2023b. Litty, Samantha M. & Joseph Salmons. Segmental Phenomena in Germanic: Consonants. In Sebastian Kürschner & Antje Dammel (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Germanic Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: https:
9780199384655.013.964 [Print version expected 2026; Title change to: Consonants in Germanic] 2023a. The German-language Press in South Dakota. In Jon K. Lauck (ed.), South Dakota History: Old Trails and New Roads, 202-229. Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Center for Western Studies Press. ISBN: 978-0-931170-94-2. 2022b. Newspaper advertisements as an indicator of verticalization: A case study of the Eureka Post. In Elizabeth Peterson & Eeva Sippola (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 12th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 12), 118–129. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 12(2). DOI: https:
bells.v12i2.3833 2022a. Historical Sociolinguistic Contexts: Networks and feature availability in 19th century German letter collections. In Kelly Biers & Joshua R. Brown (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 11th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 11), 40–47. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #3605. http:
paper3605.pdf 2019c. Bagwell, Angela, Samantha Litty & Mike Olson. Wisconsin immigrant letters: German influence and imposition on Wisconsin English. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Keeping in Touch. Emigrant Letters across the English-speaking World, 27–41. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: https:
ahs.10 2019b. Litty, Samantha, Jennifer Mercer & Joseph Salmons. Early Immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled. In Sandra Jansen, Markus Huber & Lucia Siebers (eds.), Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, 115–138. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: https:
silv.21.07lit 2019a. Litty, Samantha & Joseph Salmons. Trajectories and Heritage. In Kristine Horner and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain (eds.), Multilingualism and (Im)mobilities: Language, Power, Agency, 165–174. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. DOI: https:
9781788925051 2016. Litty, Samantha, Christine Evans & Joseph Salmons. Gray Zones: The fluidity of Wisconsin German language and identification. In Peter Rosenberg (ed.), Linguistic construction of ethnic borders, 183–205. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. DOI: https:
978-3-653-04595-6 Book Reviews 2025. Discovering the many Englishes of North America. Review of Earlier North American Englishes by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers. American Speech 100(1). 133–138. DOI: https:
00031283-11777430 2024. Review of The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities by Joshua R. Brown. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. DOI: https:
jhsl-2023-0030 2018. Review of Handbuch der deutschen Sprachminderheiten in Übersee ed. by AlbrechtPlewnia and Claudia Maria Riehl. Yearbook of German-American Studies 53. 252–254. DOI: https:
ygas.v53i Invited Talks - 2026c. Sichtbarmachung historischer Mehrsprachigkeit in regionalen Alltagssprachen 2.0: Das nordfriesische Element.Making Minorities Visible: Language as a Medium of Inclusion and Exclusion. Humboldt-Kolleg. Universität Wien. - 2026b. Speisen und Getränke in einem Landgasthof am Ochsenweg im 19. Jh.: Hinweise aus dem sog. „Ranzelberger Gästebuch“. Steinhausgespräch: Friesische Kulinarik. Workshop.Steinhaus Bunderhee. (Organizers: Heiko Suhr, Michael Hermann, Han Nijdam, Christoph Schmidt). - 2026a. Sichtbarmachung historischer Mehrsprachigkeit in regionalen Alltagssprachen: Die Rolle des Nordfriesischen. Nordfriesland in Kiel III. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. - 2025d. I thought Frisians were horses: Friesen, Friesisch, Nordfriesland (Frisians, Frisian, North Frisia). Hosted by the German and Dutch Graduate Student Association (GDGSA). University of Wisconsin – Madison. - 2025c. Historical sociolinguistics in the digital age: Methods and approaches for analyzing multilingualism in the Duchy of Schleswig. Language Sciences, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison. - 2025b. Sichtbarmachung historischer Mehrsprachigkeit in regionalen Alltagssprachen: Sprachideologie, Sprachpolitik und Sprachpraktiken. Nordfriesland in Kiel II. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. (Poster.) - 2025a. Analyzing the Duchy of Schleswig in the digital age. International Workshop on Language History “from Below”: Data Sources and (Digital) Approaches. University of Lausanne.. (Organizers: Markus Schiegg & Anita Auer) - 2024e. Terminologische Überlegungen in Bezug auf das Nordfriesische. The Sociolinguistics of North Frisian: Attitudes, Acquisition, and Applications of Research Findings. Workshop. Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig. (Organizer: Ruth Kircher, ECMI) - 2024d. Language Ideologies in the 19th Century: The Duchy of Schleswig and the Case of North Frisian
Sprachideologien im 19. Jahrhundert: Das Herzogtum Schleswig und der Fall des Nordfriesischen. The Sociolinguistics of North Frisian: Attitudes, Acquisition, and Applications of Research Findings. Workshop. Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig. (Organizer: Ruth Kircher, ECMI) - 2024c. Litty, Samantha M., Ruth Kircher, & Lena Terh