Maintenance and loss of minority languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert, Sjaak Kroon

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (415 p.)
• Disciplina: 408/.693
• Soggetto topico: Language maintenance; Linguistic minorities; Language attrition; Code switching (Linguistics); Sociolinguistics
• Altri autori: FaseWillem JaspaertK KroonSjaak
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: section 1. Perspectives -- section 2. Various approaches (part 1) : linguistic studies -- section 2. Various approaches (part 2) : Sociological studies -- section 2. Various approaches (part 3) : descriptive studies -- section 3. Prospects.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Maintenance and loss of minority languages
• ISBN: 1-55619-344-0; 90-272-8289-7; 1-283-22226-4; 9786613222268
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781777103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in bilingualism ; ; v. 1.