Reetta Toivanen & Janne Saarikivi 
Linguistic Genocide or Superdiversity? [EPUB ebook] 
New and Old Language Diversities

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Are we facing an immense wave of language death or a period of remarkable new linguistic variation? Or both? This book answers this question by analysing studies of language endangerment and loss along with those of language change, revitalization and diversity. Using case studies from Russia and the EU, the authors compare historical language variation to that of the present day, arguing that accelerated language extinction can be considered a result of colonization, modernizat...

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0. Reetta Toivanen and Janne Saarikivi: Introduction to New and Old Language Diversities in

Russia and Europe: Language Endangerment, Variation and Change in Mi...

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About the author

Janne Saarikivi is a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include historical linguistics, ...

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781783096077 ● File size 1.4 MB ● Editor Reetta Toivanen & Janne Saarikivi ● Publisher Channel View Publications ● City Bristol ● Country GB ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4942066 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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