Can parallelingualism save Norwegian from extinction?

Multilingua

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 289-305

  Linn, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

domain loss; language extinction; language planning; language policy; Norwegian; parallelingualism; reversing language shift

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751498838     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mult.2010.014     Document Type: Review

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