APB: Non English Language Slang

[Jonathon Green]

Can anyone help? I am looking for an overview, an article on or indeed the
history - either in English or French (my language 'abilities' stop there)
of non-anglophone slang, or any aspect thereof. I must assume that the
relevant learned journals in the relevant countries - I am looking, on the
whole, at European languages - may well have dealt with the topic in their
own languages, but as I say, I am no polyglot. I am not optimistic. I have
tried google but nothing appears - though I may well be asking the wrong
questions. Such mavens as Jon Lighter and Jesse Sheidlower have admitted
defeat, but if anyone has any pointers, better still titles, I would be
hugely grateful.

Jonathon Green

PS. The two things I do have are a brief ref. in Mencken's American Lang,
and some material in Partridge's Slang Today and Yesterday. But these
refer mainly (Mencken wholly) to the distant past. I need information on
17C and beyond.