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The Making of a Language

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Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, gramma...
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  • 25 February 2003
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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.

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Price: $187.99
Pages: 550
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date: 25 February 2003
ISBN: 9783110170993
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: FOR000000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, FOR033000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages (see also Latin), LAN006000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation
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Tomasz Wicherkiewicz is Associate Professor at The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznán, Poland.