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Date: 25-Mar-2025
From: Michela Russo [mrusso at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Romance minority languages: a Challenge for linguistic theory (edited by Michela Russo & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn), Special Issue Isogloss vol. 11.3 2025. Published  (OA) https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index


Much of the research on minority and understudied languages focuses on
language policy and politics (maintenance, endangerment, and
revitalization). In this Specil Issue, a spotlight has been placed on
the special theoretical import of these languages, and the role they
play in shaping our understanding of the language faculty and the
linguistic landscape.
In recent decades, and especially recently, researchers are
appreciating just how many understudied languages exist, this includes
many endangered and/or minoritized bona fide varieties/languages (or
clusters of thereof): Lombard, Sicilian, Rheto-Romance Judeo-Roman,
Arpitan, Occitan, Istro-Romanian, but also creoles or creolized
languages, and colonial languages: Michif, Papiamentu, Palenquero,
Louisiana Cajun French and linguistic codes that are so minoritized,
they are barely considered ‘varieties’ at all: pidgins, mixed and
interlanguages (Llanito, Portuñol, Chavacano), and often acategorical
and idiosyncratic (but still linguistically revealing) speech of
heritage speakers.
A great many of these minority languages are Romance in origin and
since there has been active, intensive and systematic research on the
major Romance varieties for over a hundred years, this provides a
backdrop from which to ask highly specific, micro-dialectal,
micro-parametric, formal questions that are relevant to linguistic
theory.
This special issue created a space to further champion the theoretical
relevance of the morpho-syntax, morphology and phonology of minority
and minoritized linguistic languages of Romance origin, which are
understudied, both inside and outside of Europe.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Romance



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