The Making of a Language : : The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice, Southern Poland / / Tomasz Wicherkiewicz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Wicherkiewicz, Tomasz,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] , 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (539 p.)
• Other title: I-IV --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations and symbols --; Contents --; Chapter One Preliminaries --; Chapter Two Wilamowice as a linguistic enclave --; Chapter Three Origin of the ethnolect --; Chapter Four Literature in Wilamowicean --; Chapter Five Florian Biesik --; Chapter Six Florian Biesik's texts --; Chapter Seven Orthographic and phonetic issues --; Chapter Eight Grammatical issues --; Chapter Nine Lexical semantics --; Chapter Ten Language archaisms and dialectisms --; Chapter Eleven Ethnolinguistic issues --; Endnotes --; Appendices --; References
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110905403; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 0179-8251
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110905403
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tomasz Wicherkiewicz.

The book presents unique literature in a minority ethnolect – the Germanic dialect of Wilamowice in Southern Poland. The manuscripts, written in the ethnolect at the beginning of the 20th century, were discovered in 1989. The book contains full versions of several texts of various length written by Florian Biesik, who decided to create a literary standard for Wilamowicean in order to prove its non-German, but possibly Anglo-Saxon, Dutch, Flemish or Frisian origin. Thus it presents both the dialectal literature and the most important elements of the local culture during the final stages of its extinction.