In a small group, you will explore one modern dialect that developed out of one of the historic Germanic languages and dialects.

This project will help you to better understand the long-lasting presence of a key feature of the German language

The project has three parts:

• A Slide show presentation(please upload as PDF)
• A handout
• A language sample: link to an audio file or video (youtube etc. ) or direct upload of the file

[Make sure the PDF is small - use the built-in feature of PowerPoint or Keynote OR a free PDF compressing tool Links to an external site.]

Core features:

• Information about the language (region, speakers, status, reputation)
• History
• Linguistic features
• Optional: fun facts :) 

For the Handout:

• 1 page: only important information
• 11 -12 point, Times New Roman, 1.5 spaced
• bullet points 

All Materials uploaded by 05/01 at 11:59 pm

Grading Rubric Presentations.doc Download Grading Rubric Presentations.doc 

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• Aronoff, Mark., and Rees-Miller, Janie.The Handbook of Linguistics. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001. Print. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics.
• Chambers, J. K., Wiley InterScience, Trudgill, Peter, and Schilling-Estes, Natalie. The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Web.
• Chambers, William Walker., and Wilkie, John Ritchie. A Short History of the German Language. London: Methuen, 1970. Print.
• Enfield, N. J., Kockelman, Paul, and Sidnell, Jack. The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge UP, 2014. Print. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics.
• Haspelmath, Martin, and Tadmor, Uri. Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton, 2009. Print.
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• MacWhinney, Brian, and O'Grady, William.The Handbook of Language Emergence. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Web.
• Matthews, P. H., and Oxford University Press. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. 2nd ed. Oxford]: Oxford UP, 2007. Oxford Paperback Reference. Web.
• Waterman, John T. A History of the German Language: With Special Reference to the Cultural and Social Forces That Shaped the Standard Literary Language. Rev. ed. Seattle: U of Washington, 1976. Print.