| The Making of a Language Reprint 2011 Edition Contributor(s): Wicherkiewicz, Tomasz (Author) |
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ISBN: 311017099X ISBN-13: 9783110170993 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $170.04 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Yiddish - Foreign Language Study | Ancient Languages (see Also Latin) |
| Dewey: 437.843 |
| LCCN: 2002044949 |
| Series: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [Tildoc] |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.08 lbs) 550 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |