Language and identity in the Balkans Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration
Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic, but the break-up of the Serbo-Croat language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2008, 2008
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| Edition: | Updated ed |
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic, but the break-up of the Serbo-Croat language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened |
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| Item Description: | Previous ed.: 2004 |
| Physical Description: | x, 205 p. maps |
| ISBN: | 9780191717673 0191717673 |