WoL: Europe

World of Linguistics

THE LANGUAGES AND
LINGUISTICS OF EUROPE
A Comprehensive Guide

Ed. by Bernd Kortmann, Johan van der Auwera

Style sheet

Leipzig Glossing Rules
Abbreviations of language names - new
WoL: Europe Chapters - restricted access folder

Table of Contents

- ABSTRACTS-

Chapter	Ed.	Author(s)
I. Typology of European languages (about 80-100 pages)
· Germanic	BK	Askedal, John Ole
· Romance	BK	Kabatek, Johannes
· Baltic	JA	Holvoet, Axel
· Slavonic	JA	Hansen, Björn
· Celtic	BK	Ronan, Patricia
· Caucasian	JA	Daniel, Michael & Yuri Lander
· Finno-Ugric	JA	Laakso, Johanna
· Turkic	JA	Menz, Astrid
· Basque	BK	Haase, Martin
· Romani	BK	Matras, Yaron
· Albanian	JA	Kallulli, Dalina
· Greek (5 S.)	JA	Tsangalidis, Anastasios
· Maltese	BK	Stolz, Thomas
· Sign languages	JA	Vermeerbergen, Mim & Lorraine Leeson

II. Areal typology and language contact (about 150 pages)
II.1. Areal Typology (about 40 pages)
· Standard Average European	JA	Van der Auwera, Johan
· Balkan Sprachbund	BK	Tomič, Olga
· (Circum-)Baltic	BK	Wälchli, Bernhard
· MediTyp /Mediterranean languages	JA	Sansò, Andrea

II.2. Language contact (about 60 pages)
· Language contact of minority languages in Central and Southern Europe: a comparative approach	BK	Breu, Walter
· Language contact in
o the North of Europe	BK	Östman, Jan-Ola
o SW of Europe	BK	Kabatek, Johannes & Pusch, Claus
o South-Eastern Europe	BK	Hill, Peter
o Language policies at the Germanic-Romance language border: The case of Belgium, Luxembourg, Lorraine and Switzerland	BK	Gilles, Peter
o East and Northeast	BK	Stern, Dieter

II.3. Minority languages (about 20 pages)
· History and fate of the old minority languages	JA	Troester-Mutz, Stefan
· New minority languages	JA	Extra, Guus

II.4. Non-standard varieties (about 30 pages)

· Dialect vs. standard: a typology of scenarios in Europe	BK	Auer, Peter
· Dialect change: divergence/convergence at borders in Europe	BK	Woolhiser, Curt
· Non-standard varieties in the areal typology of Europe	BK	Kortmann, Bernd

III. Language politics and language policies in Europe (about 80-100 pages)
· Minorities, language politics & language planning in Europe	JA	Darquennes, Jeroen
· Feminist language policies in Europe	BK	Hornscheidt, Antje
· English as a threat to European languages and European multilingualism?	BK	House-Edmondson, Juliane
· English in intranational public discourse	BK	Pahta, Päivi + Taavitsainen, Irma
· Language in political institutions of multilingual states and the European Union	JA	Wodak, Ruth + Michal Krzyzanowski
· Language and the church: European perspectives	BK	Myhill, John
· Language and the school: European perspectives	BK	Grzega, Joachim


IV. Research traditions in Europe (about 80-100 pages)
· Up to and including the 18th century	JA	Mclelland, Nicola
· 19th century	JA	Swiggers, Pierre
· European structuralism	JA	Albrecht, Jörn
· European functionalism	JA	Sornicola, Rosanna
· Generative linguistics in Europe	JA	Reuland, Eric + Martin B. Everaert

V. History of European languages (about 60-80 pages)
· The prehistory of European languages (incl. Vasconian hypothesis)	JA	Mailhammer, Robert
· The impact of migrations on the linguistic landscape of Europe	BK	Ramat, Paolo
· Renaissance	BK	Aschenberg, Heidi
· Multilingual empires and their dissolution in the history of Europe
o Habsburg Empire	BK	Fellerer, Jan C.
o Ottoman Empire	BK	Johansson, Lars
o Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union	BK	Stern, Dieter
o Yugoslavia	BK	Voss, Christian
· Language and nation-building in Europe	BK	Wright, Sue