Linguistic Regionalism in Eastern Europe and Beyond

The present volume aims at exploring the overall patterns of linguistic regionalism throughout Eastern Europe and beyond. A wide array of aspects related to regional language designs are addressed. The volume aims also at a critical reassessment of Aleksandr Dulichenko's microlanguage paradigm.

Autorentext

Dieter Stern is chair of Slavic Philology at the University of Ghent/Belgium. He is a specialist in the sociolinguistics of Slavic languages, especially contact languages, and in Slavic historical linguistics and philology.

Motoki Nomachi is Professor of Slavic linguistics in the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan. His research interests include language contact and sociolinguistics with special attention paid to Kashubian as well as other small languages.

Bojan Belic is Principal Lecturer and Departmental Languages Coordinator in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington, USA. He conducts research in the general field of South Slavic linguistics with particular focus on syntactic phenomena, as well as language policy issues.

Inhalt

Linguistics regionalism in Eastern Europe Slavic literary microlanguages Language planning and design Pomak Banat Bulgarian Bunyev Lachian Eastern Slovak Kashubian Moravian Podlachian Mirandese Lombard Sicilian Limburgs