Steve Hartman Keiser
Department of English
Marquette University
P.O. Box 1881

Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881

414-288-3465
s.hartman.keiser@marquette.edu

Welcome to my homepage!

I am an assistant professor in linguistics in the English Department at Marquette University.  This page may soon move to a Marquette webserver.

I received my Ph.D. in 2001 in sociohistorical linguistics from the Ohio State University.
Dissertation title: "Language change across speech islands: the development of a Midwestern dialect of Pennsylvania German."

Research Interests
 

·       Contact linguistics

Language “drift” vs. language contact in dialect/language change.

·       Dialectology in North America

Spread of dialect features between speech islands, rural/urban interface.

·       Minority lg maintenance/death

Speakers’ attitudes, role of literacy, first language attrition.

·       Pennsylvania German:

History and variation in phonetics, lexicon, morphology, and syntax.

·       Phonetics/phonology:

Production and perception of vowel (near) mergers, “naturalness” of sound change.

·       Language and Identity:

Singleness in Amish communities, religious practice and linguistic practice, silence.

 

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last updated 8.27.2002