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...
Table of Content
0. Reetta Toivanen and Janne Saarikivi: Introduction to New and Old Language Diversities in
Russia and Europe: Language Endangerment, Variation and Change in Mi...
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, ...