My Research and Interests
- Amish and Old Order Mennonites
- Pennsylvania Dutch
- Nominal Morphology
- The Morphology/Phonology Interface
- Language Contact
- Language Change
- Language Documentation
- Dialectology
- Sociolinguistic factors (sex, age, ethno-religious group membership, etc.)
The focus of my dissertation (in progress)
- Grammatical gender in Pennsylvania Dutch
- Dialect differences of the Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Publications
- Fisher, Rose (2023). Amish Attitudes and Identity in Relation to Pennsylvania Dutch. The Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities 4(1), 65--81. Ohio State University Libraries. DOI: 10.18061/jpac.v4i1.9294
- Fisher, Rose; David Natvig; Erin Pretorius; Michael T. Putnam, & Katharina S. Schuhmann (2022). Why is Inflectional Morphology Difficult to Borrow? – Distributing and Lexicalizing Plural Allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch. Languages 7:86, 1--25. Baltimore, MD: Linguistic Society of America via Johns Hopkins University Press. DOI: 10.3390/languages7020086
- Fisher, Rose (2022). Varieties of Pennsylvania Dutch: Post-vernacular or Not so Simple? In Elizabeth Peterson & Eeva Sippola (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 12), BeLLS 13, 19--38. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. DOI:10.15845/bells.v12i2.3824
- Fisher, Rose; Katharina S. Schuhmann; & Michael T. Putnam (2022). Reducing the Role of Prosody: Plural Allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch. In Kelly Biers and Joshua R. Brown (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 11), 1--10. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Fisher 2023_Amish attitudes and identity in relation to Pennsylvania Dutch.pdf | |
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Fisher et al. 2022_Why is inflectional morphology difficult to borrow?.pdf | |
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Fisher 2022_Varieties of Pennsylvania Dutch_Postvernacular or not so simple?.pdf | |
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Fisher, Schuhmann & Putnam 2022_Reducing the role of prosody_Plural allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch.pdf | |
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