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Dorian, Nancy C. 1994. Purism vs. compromise in language revitalization and language revival. Language in Society 23 (4) : 479–494.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | language contact | language revival

Language as a subject

Tiwi

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses puristic, conservative attitudes that threaten survival chances of endangered languages, whilst offering evidence from Arvanitika, Pennsylvania German and Northern Irish that structural compromise may enhance these chances.