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Peer reviewedJoseph, John Earl – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1980
The schema generally used to describe the linguistic situation in Italy includes two categories: dialetto regionale (regional dialect) and italiano regionale (regional Italian). These stand apart from the widely accepted sociolinguistic model "variety--dialect--language." It is demonstrated that both these categories should be treated…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Italian, Language Classification
Silver, Shirley; Miller, Wick R. – 1997
This book introduces the general reader to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures as they exist in time and space, and supplies limited technical linguistic orientation to encourage further exploration of language interrelationships, cultures, and other ways of knowing. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the status, diversity, and…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics
Download full textSandefur, John R. – 1986
A study of North Australia's Kriol language situation identifies the language, its speakers, its functions, and the sociopolitical factors in its emergence as an autonomous language. The first chapter reviews the development of the linguistic field concerning pidgins and creoles, looking especially at the concepts developed to explain the rise and…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Bilingualism, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics
