Strategies for conservation of a minority language
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Vito Matranga
Abstract
The Arbëresh linguistic varieties constitute a rich field of investigation for interesting phenomena of language attrition and contact. Because of the ancient and prolonged situation of bilingualism between Albanian and Italo-Romance varieties an interesting set of phenomena of code-switching, loan, convergence and hybridization has presented itself.
This research concerns the Arbëresh linguistic minority of Greci, a small town in the Campanian region of southern Italy. Within Arbëria, the widespread archipelago of Albanian-speaking communities which occupies a vast territory in southern Italy, the preservation of Arbëresh presents very different sociolinguistic situations. Inside Arbëria Greci occupies a geographically isolated position and up to the 1960’s arbëresh was flourishing in the community.
Today Greci is transitioning through a difficult period from socio-economic, cultural, and linguistic points of view. Nevertheless Arbëresh has still a good hold with adults and elderly speakers, although decline was detected among some younger speakers.
Abstract
The Arbëresh linguistic varieties constitute a rich field of investigation for interesting phenomena of language attrition and contact. Because of the ancient and prolonged situation of bilingualism between Albanian and Italo-Romance varieties an interesting set of phenomena of code-switching, loan, convergence and hybridization has presented itself.
This research concerns the Arbëresh linguistic minority of Greci, a small town in the Campanian region of southern Italy. Within Arbëria, the widespread archipelago of Albanian-speaking communities which occupies a vast territory in southern Italy, the preservation of Arbëresh presents very different sociolinguistic situations. Inside Arbëria Greci occupies a geographically isolated position and up to the 1960’s arbëresh was flourishing in the community.
Today Greci is transitioning through a difficult period from socio-economic, cultural, and linguistic points of view. Nevertheless Arbëresh has still a good hold with adults and elderly speakers, although decline was detected among some younger speakers.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Editorial note ix
- Language intricacy 1
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Part 1. Theoretical aspects of the intricacy of languages
- Language globalization versus inner language diversity? 11
- La complexité dans les relations de langues collatérales 23
- The persistence of ‘old language’ and the structuring of language communities 47
- The lowest common denominator as a factor in the formation of Modern Hebrew phonology 53
- Contribuciones de Joan Coromines y Jakob Jud a la dialectología de las lenguas románicas 69
- Lingue e culture locali nei processi contemporanei di patrimonializzazione e di costruzione identitaria 81
- La linguistica dello sviluppo sociale 99
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Part 2. The languages of Europe, among standard and variation
- Complexité du continuum dialectal carélo-vepse 137
- The lexicon of the Lithuanian language in the 17–19th centuries 153
- L’estandardització del gaèlic escocès 175
- La construcción del estándar vasco vizcaíno del s. XIX 189
- The standardization of Chinese 205
- Strategies for conservation of a minority language 227
- Per a un tractament integrat de llengües en el context escolar de les parles valencianes de base castellano-aragonesa i murciana 243
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Part 3. Tensions and internal diversity in the Catalan language
- La variació lectal del català en l’era de la societat xarxa 263
- La perspectiva diastràtica en la Gramàtica de la llengua catalana. descriptiva, normativa, diatòpica, diastràtica (1994), d’Antoni M. Badia i Margarit 281
- La distribució funcional de variants en la Gramàtica de la llengua catalana. descriptiva, normativa, diatòpica, diastràtica (1994), d’Antoni M. Badia i Margarit 297
- Fabra i la segona flexió verbal en català 311
- Processos de canvi en les combinacions de clítics pronominals a la Franja 327
- Renunciar als trets lingüístics propis 347
- La presència del tortosí al Telenotícies comarques Tarragona de TV3 359
- “La nostra llengua” i altres circumloquis com a recurs per a evitar el nom de la llengua catalana al País Valencià (1858–1906) 379
- Geosinonímia o preferència lèxica 393
- El Diccionari normatiu valencià (DNV) de l’Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua 409
- Subject index 433
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Editorial note ix
- Language intricacy 1
-
Part 1. Theoretical aspects of the intricacy of languages
- Language globalization versus inner language diversity? 11
- La complexité dans les relations de langues collatérales 23
- The persistence of ‘old language’ and the structuring of language communities 47
- The lowest common denominator as a factor in the formation of Modern Hebrew phonology 53
- Contribuciones de Joan Coromines y Jakob Jud a la dialectología de las lenguas románicas 69
- Lingue e culture locali nei processi contemporanei di patrimonializzazione e di costruzione identitaria 81
- La linguistica dello sviluppo sociale 99
-
Part 2. The languages of Europe, among standard and variation
- Complexité du continuum dialectal carélo-vepse 137
- The lexicon of the Lithuanian language in the 17–19th centuries 153
- L’estandardització del gaèlic escocès 175
- La construcción del estándar vasco vizcaíno del s. XIX 189
- The standardization of Chinese 205
- Strategies for conservation of a minority language 227
- Per a un tractament integrat de llengües en el context escolar de les parles valencianes de base castellano-aragonesa i murciana 243
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Part 3. Tensions and internal diversity in the Catalan language
- La variació lectal del català en l’era de la societat xarxa 263
- La perspectiva diastràtica en la Gramàtica de la llengua catalana. descriptiva, normativa, diatòpica, diastràtica (1994), d’Antoni M. Badia i Margarit 281
- La distribució funcional de variants en la Gramàtica de la llengua catalana. descriptiva, normativa, diatòpica, diastràtica (1994), d’Antoni M. Badia i Margarit 297
- Fabra i la segona flexió verbal en català 311
- Processos de canvi en les combinacions de clítics pronominals a la Franja 327
- Renunciar als trets lingüístics propis 347
- La presència del tortosí al Telenotícies comarques Tarragona de TV3 359
- “La nostra llengua” i altres circumloquis com a recurs per a evitar el nom de la llengua catalana al País Valencià (1858–1906) 379
- Geosinonímia o preferència lèxica 393
- El Diccionari normatiu valencià (DNV) de l’Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua 409
- Subject index 433
