Language Death in the Isle of Man : : An investigation into the decline and extinction of Manx Gaelic as a community language in the Isle of Man / / George Broderick.
Language death is an aspect of language contact which has occupied the interest of linguists from the past twenty-five years or so. Although the phenomenon of language death is occuring all over the world very few instances of it have been dealt with both from a sociolinguistic and formal linguistic...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Literary and Cultural Studies - 1990 - 1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2011] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- I-XIV
- 1. Language death
- 2. The sociolinguistic situation of Manx
- 3. Studies on language and language use in Man
- 4. The formal linguistic development of Manx
- 5. Excursus: Language revival and language maintenance in the Isle of Man
- Bibliography
- Appendix A: Dagbok. Carl J. S. Marstrander’s Diary of his visits to the Isle of Man 1929, 1930, and 1933 (translation and text)
- Appendix B: Letters (1-5) for and against the use of Manx
- Appendix C: Census figures for the towns and parishes 1726-1891
- Appendix D: Maps
- Appendix E: Texts
- Index