Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
Download or Read eBook Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages PDF written by Willem Fase and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Willem Fase |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 1992-06-18 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789027282897 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9027282897 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages by : Willem Fase
Book excerpt: The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that have attracted the interest of researchers before, as well as less well known examples. Data are presented from: the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Israel, The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Morocco, Finland, Malaysia, Germany, USA, Ireland, India, Tanzania and Australia.
