Language Empires in Comparative Perspective.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Arabization and linguistic domination: Berber and Arabic in the North of Africa -- Arabic, and a few good words about empires (but not all of them) -- An empire of learning: Arabic as a global language -- Chinese influence on Vietnamese: A Sinospheric tale -- Cracks in the foundation of a language empire - the resurgence of autochthonous lesser used languages in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland -- Challenges of linguistic diversity in Formosa -- Russian colonialism and hegemony and Native Siberian languages -- Language policies and language loyalties after twenty years in post-Soviet Russia: The case of Khakassia -- Sociolinguistic and linguistic outcomes of Nivkh-Russian language contact -- The evolution of Chechen in asymmetrical contact with Russian -- The emergence of gender agreement in code-switched verbal constructions in Erzya-Russian bilingual discourse -- Grammatical effects of Russian-Udmurt language contact -- The bilingualism of Finno-Ugric language speakers in the Volga Federal district -- Subjective factors of language vitality: Language attitudes of the Buryat ethnic group -- On the linguistic behavior of immigrants from the post-Soviet countries in Germany -- Collective beliefs of the mixed speech speaker in Belarus -- Belarusian vs. Russian, regularity vs. irregularity in adjective and adverb comparison of mixed speech in Belarus -- Post-Soviet Estonian-Russian language contact: Transfer and convergence in Estonian Russian -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects -- Literature.

The series provides a platform for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics. This new sub-discipline of linguistics is inspired by work carried out within the framework of Missionary Linguistics and by recent discussion about language, linguistics and colonialism. KPL/CPL intends to make accessible and comment on texts which are concerned with languages of the former European possessions in overseas and were written during the European colonial era.

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