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Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages

Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages - Studies in Bilingualism

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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ISBN: 9789027241054
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub date:
Number of pages: 415
Weight: 530g
Height: 225mm
Width: 154mm