Language and its Ecology : : Essays in Memory of Einar Haugen / / ed. by Ernst H. Jahr, Stig Eliasson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Amara, Muhammad,; Clyne, Michael,; Comrie, Bernard,; Coulmas, Florian,; Dorian, Nancy C.,; Dressler, Wolfgang U.,; Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, Katarzyna,; Filipović, Rudolf,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Giles, Howard,; Harwood, Jake,; Hymes, Dell,; Kawasaki-Fukumori, Haruko,; Kiefer, Ferenc,; Lehiste, Ilse,; Milroy, James,; Milroy, Lesley,; Niedzielski, Nancy,; Ohala, John J.,; Oksaar, Els,; Preston, Dennis R.,; Ramat, Anna Giacalone,; Romaine, Suzanne,; Spolsky, Bernard,; Thomason, Sarah G.,; Vennemann, Theo,; Winter, Werner,; Ροlomé, Edgar C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Eliasson, Stig,; Jahr, Ernst H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 100
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (492 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

I-VI -- Preface. Einar Haugen (1906-1994) -- Contents -- Sociology of language and sociolinguistics -- Predictors and criteria in multisite census survey research: from Einar Haugen to today -- The struggle to maintain Croatian dialects in the U.S. -- Politics and language change: The sociolinguistic reflexes of the division of a Palestinian village -- Exploring the social constraints on language change -- Language in its human dimension -- Managing intergroup communication: Life-span issues and consequences -- Family values: The evidence from folk linguistics -- Frontier Norwegian in South Dakota: The situated poetics of Halvor O. Aune -- Language contact and bilingualism -- On mechanisms of interference -- A convergence-resistant feature in a convergence-prone setting: The East Sutherland Gaelic vocative case -- Retracing the first seven years of bilingual and metalinguistic development through the comments of a bilingual child -- Progressive periphrases, markedness, and secondlanguage data -- Pragmatic and semiotic agreement, behavioreme-switching and communicative awareness: On concepts in the analysis of bilingual behavior -- Language typology and linguistic theory -- Tough Movement and its analogs in Germanic languages -- Verbal prefixation in the Ugric languages from a typological-areal perspective -- Alternatives to the sonority hierarchy for explaining segmental sequential constraints -- Cross-linguistic comparison of prosodic patterns in Finnish, Finland Swedish, and Stockholm Swedish -- Contributions from the acquisition of Polish phonology and morphology to theoretical linguistics -- Mother tongue and linguistic standard -- Mother tongue – for better or worse? -- The British heresy in ESL revisited -- Linguistic prehistory and philology -- A lone loanword and its implications -- Notes on the dwarfs in Germanic tradition -- Atlantiker in Nordwesteuropa: Pikten und Vanen -- Subject index -- Name index