Contemporary research in minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783985540624)

This volume provides a collection of research reports on multilingualism and language contact ranging from Romance, to Germanic, Greco and Slavic languages in situations of contact and diaspora. Most of the contributions are empirically-oriented studies presenting first-hand data based on original fieldwork, and a few focus directly on the methodological issues in such research. Owing to the multifaceted nature of contact and diaspora phenomena (e.g. the intrinsic transnational essence of contact and diaspora, and the associated interplay between majority and minoritized languages and multilingual practices in different contact settings, contact-induced language change, and issues relating to convergence) the disciplinary scope is broad, and includes ethnography, qualitative and quantitative sociolinguistics, formal linguistics, descriptive linguistics, contact linguistics, historical linguistics, and language acquisition. Case studies are drawn from Italo-Romance varieties in the Americas, Spanish-Nahuatl contact, Castellano Andino, Greko/Griko in Southern Italy, Yiddish in Anglophone communities, Frisian in the Netherlands, Wymysiyś in Poland, Sorbian in Germany, and Pomeranian and Zeelandic Flemish in Brazil.

Author: Matt Coler
ISBN-10: 3985540624
ISBN-13: 9783985540624
Publisher: Language Science Press
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2023
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.94d