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Language and identity in the Balkans : Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration.

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenberg, Robert D. (Robert David)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Edition:Updated ed.
Subjects:
Serbo-Croatian language > 20th century.
Serbo-Croatian language > 21st century.
Linguistic change > Balkan Peninsula.
Language and culture > Balkan Peninsula.
Language policy > Balkan Peninsula.
Serbo-croate (Langue) > 20e siècle.
Serbo-croate (Langue) > 21e siècle.
Changement linguistique > Balkans.
Langage et culture > Balkans.
Language and culture.
Language policy.
Linguistic change.
Serbo-Croatian language.
Balkan Peninsula.
Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
1900-2099
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
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.
Item Description:9780199208753.
Previous edition: 2004.
Physical Description:1 online resource : maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191717673
0191717673