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Minor languages : approaches, definitions, controversies : papers from the conference on "Minor languages-- coming to grips with a suitable definition", Bremen, June 2001 / edited by Joel Sherzer & Thomas Stolz.

Title
Minor languages : approaches, definitions, controversies : papers from the conference on "Minor languages-- coming to grips with a suitable definition", Bremen, June 2001 / edited by Joel Sherzer & Thomas Stolz.
Publication
Bochum : Brockmeyer, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Scherzer, Joel.
  • Stolz, Thomas.
  • Minor languages, coming to grips with a suitable definition (2001 : Bremen)
Description
xii, 188 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Diversitas linguarum, 1619-5116 ; v. 3
Uniform Title
Diversitas linguarum v. 3.
Subject
  • Linguistic minorities > Congresses
  • Sociolinguistics > Congresses
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Defining typical features of minor languages / Yaron Matras -- Smaller Turkic languages / Lars Johanson -- The decline of a minor language / Elin Fredsted -- New minor "abstandsprachen" under the roof of a genetically close literary language? / Gerd Hentschel -- The Kuna language / Joel Scherzer -- Language, typology and society-- possible correlations / Kurt Braunmüller -- New technologies and minority language communities / Elizabeth Keating & Gene Mirus -- A plea for a linguistic definition of minor languages / Utz Maas -- Statistical and psychological minorities / Wolfgang Wildgen -- The linguistic mosaic-- towards a new conceptualisation of linguistic diversity in Europe / Dónall Ó Riagáin -- Francoprovenc̜al / Dina Scherzer & Joel Scherzer.
ISBN
3819606505 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 52980045
  • SCSB-11616464
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library