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Publication details [#55152]

Leonard, Stephen Pax. 2011. Relative linguistic homogeneity in a new society: The case of Iceland. Language in Society 40 (2) : 169–186.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialectology | historical linguistics | monolingualism | sociolinguistics | speech community

Language as a subject

Icelandic

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study argues that only by associating linguistic, historical, and archaeological knowledge, one can comprehend how one linguistic norm came to serve the whole of early Iceland.