Research Catalog

Title

Language and identity in the Balkans [electronic resource] : Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration / Robert D. Greenberg.

Author

Greenberg, Robert D. (Robert David)

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Details

Description

1 online resource (x, 205 p.) : maps.

Summary

Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic, but the break-up of the Serbo-Croat language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened.

Uniform Title

Language and identity in the Balkans (Online)

Alternative Title

Language and identity in the Balkans (Online)

Subject

• Serbo-Croatian language > 20th century
• Serbo-Croatian language > 21st century
• Linguistic change > Balkan Peninsula
• Language and culture > Balkan Peninsula
• Language policy > Balkan Peninsula

Note

• Previous ed.: 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Source of Description (note)

• Description based on print version record.

OCLC

ssj0000370450

Author

Greenberg, Robert D. (Robert David)

Title

Language and identity in the Balkans [electronic resource] : Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration / Robert D. Greenberg.

Imprint

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Edition

Updated ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Other Form:

Print version 9780199208753