Maike Rocker

Assistant Professor of German and Applied Linguistics
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University, 2022

Office: CMLL 216
Email: mrocker@ttu.edu

Education

• PhD in German and Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University (2022)
• Master of Education, Universität Bremen, Germany (2016)
• Bachelor of Arts, Universität Bremen, Germany (2013)

Areas of Research

• Morphosyntax
• Sociolinguistics
• Language change and language shift
• German contact-varieties in the Americas

Courses Taught at TTU

Undergrad Level:

• GERM 1501– A beginning course in German I - online

Grad Level:

• LING 4335 / 5312 – Introduction to Linguistics for Second Language Educators

Recent Publications

•  Pecht, Nantke & Rocker, Maike H. (in print) Developing grammars: new evidence from variable progressive expression in spoken Pennsylvania Dutch and Cité Duits. In Deutsche Sprachminderheiten in der Welt: Korpusstudien zur aktuellen Sprachvariation und Sprachideologie.
• Wolf-Farré, Patrick & Rocker, Maike H. (2024). „Das „Netzwerk Sosúa“: Zur Entitativität und Vitalität einer deutsch-jüdischen Siedlung in der Dominikanischen Republik.“ In A. Wildfeuer & S. Franz (eds.), Standardisierung und (Re-)Vitalisierung von Minderheitensprachen, Germanistische Linguistik 55 (1). 315–346.
• Rocker, Maike H., Wolf-Farré, Patrick & Franz, Sebastian. (2024). “Sosúa heute – A “post-place community” connected by a shared history.” In W. Keel (ed.), Yearbook of German-American Studies 57, 31–48.
• Rocker, Maike H. (2024).“Language shift came when our people were ready for it: A sociolinguistic history of the East Frisian community in Grundy County, Iowa”. In M. T. Putnam & B. R. Page (Eds.), Contact varieties of German: Studies in honor of William D. Keel. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Rocker, Maike H. (2024). “Niederdeutsche Sprachinseln in den USA.“ In A. Bieberstedt, D. Brandt, K-H. Ehlers & C. Schmitt (eds.), 100 Jahre Niederdeutsche Philologie. Ausgangspunkte, Entwicklungslinien, aktuelle Herausforderungen. Berlin: Peter Lang.
• Rocker, Maike H. (2022). Language and identity in the East Frisian-American (postvernacular) heritage community. Selected Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 12). ed. by Elizabeth Peterson and Eeva Sippola. BeLLS 13, 39–51.
• Rocker, Maike H. (2022). Prolonged language maintenance in multilingual texts: Evidence from the Ostfriesen Zeitung and a reader’s diary. Selected Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 11). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 29­–39.