Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages.

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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Fase, Willem
Other Authors:	Jaspaert, Koen, Kroon, Sjaak
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.
Series:	Studies in Bilingualism Ser. ; no. 1.
Subjects:	Language maintenance. Linguistic minorities. Language attrition. Code switching (Linguistics) Sociolinguistics. Language attrition Language maintenance Linguistic minorities Sociolinguistics