22.4061, Qs: Lexical attrition in Silesia and Okinawa

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Subject: 22.4061, Qs: Lexical attrition in Silesia and Okinawa

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Date: 17-Oct-2011
From: Robert McColl Millar [r.millar at abdn.ac.uk]
Subject: Lexical attrition in Silesia and Okinawa


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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:11:14
From: Robert McColl Millar [r.millar at abdn.ac.uk]
Subject: Lexical attrition in Silesia and Okinawa

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I am presently putting together a bid for funding for a project dealing with 
lexical attrition where the dialect under threat is a (close) relative of the 
language of state. The project is intended to extend beyond Europe. At 
present I am considering the Scots of Orkney (in relation to Scottish 
Standard English), Silesian dialect (in relation to Standard Polish) and 
Okinawan (in relation to Standard Japanese). 

If you know of work done on lexical attrition in Silesian or Okinawan or 
you would be interested in collaboration, please let me know. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics





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