Language Maintenance and Language Death -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of illustrations -- Chapter One. Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Methodology and data collection -- 1.3 What is Texas Alsatian? -- 1.3.1 The land of origin -- 1.3.2 The Upper Rhenish donor dialect -- 1.4 The decline of Texas German dialects -- 1.4.1 Linguistic homogeneity versus heterogeneity -- 1.4.2 Standard French and German Űberdachung -- 1.4.3 Elsasser and Dietsche: Two cultural communities -- 1.5 Adopted home of Texas Alsatian: Medina County 2000 -- 1.6 Participant profile -- 1.6.1 Speaker fluency -- 1.6.2 Language acquisition and fluency -- 1.7 Contact with the European homeland and language use today -- 1.8 Book overview -- Chapter Two. The sociohistorical context -- 2.1 The ecology of language -- 2.2 Beginnings: The historical context -- 2.2.1 German immigration to Texas -- 2.2.2 Immigration to Medina County -- 2.2.3 Henri Castro, Empresario -- 2.2.4 The founding of Castroville -- 2.3 Socio-cultural contexts: Religion and education -- 2.4 Political and economic contexts -- 2.4.1 Insulation -- 2.4.2 "Reawakening" -- 2.4.3 Verticalization vs. horizontalization -- 2.5 Sociolinguistic contexts -- 2.5.1 Language use in early Castroville -- 2.5.2 Diglossia and language shift in early Castroville -- 2.5.3 Real and apparent-time analysis of 2009 participants -- 2.6 "Group vitality" and language maintenance and shift -- 2.7 Summary -- Chapter Three. The lexicon of Texas Alsatian -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Distinguishing Texas Alsatian lexically -- 3.3 Lexical borrowing -- 3.4 Lexical innovation and convergence -- 3.5 Code-switching -- 3.6 Summary -- Chapter Four. The phonology of Texas Alsatian -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Phonological features of European Alsatian.

4.2.1 Regional German dialects in contact with Alsatian -- 4.2.2 Distinguishing consonantal features of Alsatian -- 4.2.3 Distinguishing vocalic features of Alsatian -- 4.2.4 Alsatian regional varieties: Upper and lower Rhenish -- 4.3 Texas Alsatian -- 4.3.1 Preservation of Alsatian vocalic features -- 4.4.2 Preservation of consonantal features -- 4.3.3 Phonological transference -- 4.4 Summary -- Chapter Five. The morphosyntax of Texas Alsatian -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The standard German noun: Gender, case, and number -- 5.3 The Upper Rhenish noun: Gender, case, and number -- 5.4 The Texas Alsatian noun: Gender, case, and number -- 5.4.1 Gender -- 5.4.2 Case marking -- 5.4.3 Number and plural formation -- 5.4.4 The diminutive -- 5.4.5 Pronouns -- 5.5 The Upper Rhenish verb -- 5.6 The Texas Alsatian verb -- 5.6.1 The present perfect tense -- 5.6.2 Temporal auxiliaries -- 5.6.3 Modal auxiliaries -- 5.6.4 Word order in verb complements -- 5.7 Summary and analysis -- Chapter Six. Language attitudes -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Attitudes, feelings, beliefs -- 6.3 The Castroville Alsatians -- 6.4 Language use and attitudes toward "the other" -- 6.4.1 The "other" -- 6.4.2 The Texas German community: not "the other"? -- 6.5 The decline of Texas Alsatian -- 6.6 Preservation -- 6.7 Summary -- Chapter Seven. Language maintenance and death -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Structural maintenance of the Upper Rhenish donor dialect(s) -- 7.3 Structural change and loss in Texas Alsatian -- 7.4 Texas Alsatian versus other Texas German varieties -- 7.5 Group identity markers for the Castroville Alsatian community -- 7.6 Attitudes, dispositions, and ideologies -- 7.7 The decline of Texas Alsatian -- 7.8 Implications for various research areas -- 7.8.1 Implications for structural research on language maintenance.

7.8.2 Implications for sociolinguistic research on language maintenance -- 7.8.3 Implications for research on linguistic change related to language death -- 7.8.4 Implications for sociolinguistic research on language death -- 7.9 Concluding remarks -- Appendices -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- References -- Index.