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This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and
minority languages in 12 different minority communities across
Europe, all of which are underrepresented in international minority
language studies. The book presents a number of case studies
covering a broad range of highly diverse minorities and languages
with different historical and socio-political backgrounds. Despite
current legislation and institutional and educational support, the
authors surmise there is no guarantee for the maintenance of
minority languages, suggesting changes in attitudes and language
ideologies are the key to promoting true multilingualism. The book
also introduces a new tool, the European Language Vitality
Barometer, for assessing the maintenance of minority languages on
the basis of survey data. The book is based on the European
Language Diversity for All (ELDIA) research project which was
funded by the European Commission (7th framework programme,
2010-2013).
This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging
treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of
languages spoken in northern Eurasia. While there is a long history
of research into these languages, much of it has been conducted
within several disparate national traditions; studies of certain
languages and topics are somewhat limited and in many cases
outdated. The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages brings together
leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive
and up-to-date account of the internal relations and diversity of
the Uralic language family, including the outlines of its
historical development, and the contacts between Uralic and other
languages of Eurasia. The book is divided into three parts. Part I
presents the origins and development of the Uralic languages: the
initial chapters examine reconstructed Proto-Uralic and its
divergence, while later chapters provide surveys of the history and
codification of the three Uralic nation-state languages (Hungarian,
Finnish, and Estonian) and the Uralic minority languages from
Baltic Europe to Siberia. This part also explores questions of
endangerment, revitalization, and language policy. The chapters in
Part II offer individual structural overviews of the Uralic
languages, including a number of understudied minority languages
for which no detailed description in English has previously been
available. The final part of the book provides cross-Uralic
comparative and typological case studies of a range of issues in
phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon. The chapters
explore a number of topics, such as information structure and
clause combining, that have traditionally received very little
attention in Uralic studies. The volume will be an essential
reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic
languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more
broadly.
Our Otherness explores the interface between Finno-Ugrian Studies -
traditional research into the Finno-Ugric languages, their history
and relatedness, as well as other approaches to the language,
history, culture, and folklore of these peoples - and Women's
Studies. How do gender and linguistic origins interact in the
making of national identity? Can we speak about a "gendered
Finno-Ugrianness"? How does gender express itself in languages
lacking grammatical gender, and how are these questions dealt with
in language description and language planning?
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