EAN: 9783110220254

THE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS OF EUROPE GEBUNDEN

Open publication> The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the
multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world.
The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe  including the sign languages. It
also discusses the areal typology  paying attention to the Standard Average European  Balkan 
Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new
minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and
policies  including discussions of the special status of English  the relation between language
and the church  language and the school  and standardization. The history of European
linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their
dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduate
readership. It has been designed such that it can be used  as a whole or in parts  as a
textbook  the first of its kind  for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and
linguistics) landscape of Europe.

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