Research
My research is mostly in collaboration with students and colleagues, aiming to advance our understanding of speech sounds, how they work as systems, how they are produced and perceived, how they are situated in society and how they change over time. Our work integrates research, teaching and outreach. These days, I'm doing a lot with phonological, morphological and diachronic issues in Algonquian languages. This includes a large collaborative project on Algonquian comparative linguistics. I also try to understand language contact and language shift, including heritage languages. On language shift, I'm really excited that The Verticalization Model of Language Shift is out now, edited by Josh Brown. I work occasionally on morphology, and other issues.
Below are some projects currently in preparation or even in the pipeline for publication. (Already published material is under the "CV" link.) I'm happy to share unpublished work, especially in exchange for comments and suggestions.
Books
In preparation Joshua Bousquette, Joshua R. Brown, Michael T. Putnam & Joseph Salmons. The Linguistic Diversity of German: Sociolinguistic and structural variation in Europe and the diaspora. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
In preparation Dialect. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This is almost in complete draft.
In preparation Member of the editorial team, Companion to Diachrony. 5 volumes. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Articles
In review Charlotte Vanhecke and Joseph Salmons. The historical sociolinguistics of Dutch in the American Midwest. Anita Auer, Joshua R. Brown and Angela Hoffman (eds.), Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Language Islands in the Americas: Tracing the Development from Immigrant Languages to Postvernacularity. Leiden: Brill.
In review Cristopher Font-Santiago and Joseph Salmons. Contact forms of American English. The New Cambridge History of the English Language, ed. by Raymond Hickey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
In review Samantha Litty and Joseph Salmons. Segmental Phenomena in Germanic: Consonants. Oxford Research Encyclopedia.
In review Mark Lauersdorf and Joseph Salmons. The Lost History of Historical Sociolinguistics. A festschrift.
Forthcoming Where German came from. The Oxford Handbook of the German Language, ed. by Joshua Bousquette and Simon Pickl. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Forthcoming Did Ole Really Say That?: Linguistics, Folklore, and Heritage Languages. Culture Work, ed.by Tim Frandy and Marcus Cederstrom. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Forthcoming Germanic and the Glottalic Theory. The Proto-Indo-European Stop System, ed. by Tijmen C. Pronk and Alwin Kloekhorst. Leiden: Brill.
Forthcoming Sarah Holmstrom and Joseph Salmons. Needed research in the history of American English. Robert Bayley and Erica Benson (eds.), Needed Research in American Dialects. Durham: Publications of the American Dialect Society.