The Languages and Linguistics of Europe

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• I. Typology of European languages
  • 1 The Baltic languages
  • 2 The Celtic languages
  • 3 The Germanic languages
  • 4 The Romance languages
  • 5 Slavonic languages
  • 6 The Caucasian languages
  • 7 The Turkic languages of Europe
  • 8 The Uralic languages
  • 9 Albanian
  • 10 Basque
  • 11 Greek
  • 12 Maltese
  • 13 Romani
  • 14 European signed languages – towards a typological snapshot
• II. Areal typology and language contact
  • II.1. Areal typology
    • 15 Standard Average European
    • 16 Balkan Sprachbund features
    • 17 The Circum-Baltic languages
    • 18 Mediterranean languages
  • II.2. Language contact
    • 19 Language contact in the North of Europe
    • 20 Language contact in the East and Northeast of Europe
    • 21 Language contact in Southwestern Europe
    • 22 Language contact in South-Eastern Europe
    • 23 Language contact of minority languages in Central and Southern Europe: a comparative approach
  • II.3. Minority languages
    • 24 The old minority languages of Europe
    • 25 The immigrant minority languages of Europe
  • II.4. Non-standard varieties
    • 26 Dialect vs. standard: a typology of scenarios in Europe
    • 27 Border effects in European dialect continua: dialect divergence and convergence
    • 28 Non-standard varieties in the areal typology of Europe
• III. Language politics and language policies in Europe
  • 29 Minorities, language politics and language planning in Europe
  • 31 Feminist language politics in Europe
  • 32 English as a threat to other European languages and European multilingualism?
  • 33 English in intranational public discourse
  • 34 Language in political institutions of multilingual states and the European Union
  • 35 Language and the church: European perspectives
  • 36 Language and the school: European perspectives
• IV. History of European languages
  • 37 The prehistory of European languages
  • 38 The impact of migrations on the linguistic landscape of Europe
  • 39 The Renaissance and its impact on the languages of Europe
  • 40 Multilingual states and empires in the history of Europe: the Habsburg Monarchy
  • 41 Multilingual states and empires in the history of Europe: the Ottoman Empire
  • 42 Multilingual states and empires in the history of Europe: Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union
  • 43 Multilingual states and empires in the history of Europe: Yugoslavia
  • 44 Language and nation building in Europe
• V. Research traditions in Europe
  • 45 Research traditions up to and including the 18th century
  • 46 19th century linguistics: practice and theory
  • 47 European Structuralism
  • 48 European functionalism
  • 49 Generative grammar in Europe: some historical impressions
• Index of languages and varieties
• Index of names
• Index of subjects