The making of a language : the case of the idiom of Wilamowice, southern Poland / by Tomasz Wicherkiewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wicherkiewicz, Tomasz.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC]

Trends in linguistics. Documentation ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German language--Dialects--Poland--Wilamowice (Śląskie).

German language.

Germans--Poland--Wilamowice (Śląskie).

Germans.

Wilamowice (Śląskie, Poland)--Social life and customs.

Wilamowice (Śląskie, Poland).

Biesik, Florian, 1849-1931?.

Biesik, Florian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 539 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and symbols

Contents

Chapter One Preliminaries

Chapter Two Wilamowice as a linguistic enclave

Chapter Three Origin of the ethnolect

Chapter Four Literature in Wilamowicean

Chapter Five Florian Biesik

Chapter Six Florian Biesik's texts

Chapter Seven Orthographic and phonetic issues

Chapter Eight Grammatical issues

Chapter Nine Lexical semantics

Chapter Ten Language archaisms and dialectisms

Chapter Eleven Ethnolinguistic issues

Endnotes

Appendices

References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110905403

311090540X

OCLC:

979693666