Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic)
Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic)
Author(s): Iwona PiechnikSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: conservatism; purism; change; rate; evolution; Nordic; Germanic; Baltic;Finnic
Summary/Abstract: This paper shows common extralinguistic factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic). Users’ motivation, environment, culture, history and conscious policy are the keys to understand some tendencies in the slower rate of change of these languages.
Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Issue Year: 131/2014
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 395-419
- Page Count: 25
- Language: English
