Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages

1. Introduction; 2. Maintenace and Loss of Minority Languages: Introductory Remarks (by Fase, Willem); 3. Perspectives; 4. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Contact, Maintenance and Loss: Towards a Multifacet Theory (by Clyne, Michael); 5. Sociopolitical Aspects of Language Maintenance and Loss: Towards a Typology of Minority Language Situations (by Edwards, John); 6. Linguistic Minorities and Language Policies: Four Case Studies (by Paulston, Christina Bratt); 7. I. Various Approaches Linguistic Studies; 8. On Misunderstandings in a Non-Stabilised Situation (by Boeschoten, Hendrik); 9. Some Aspects of Language Attrition in Turkish Families in the Netherlands (by Huls, Erica); 10. A Domain Approach to the Turkish Vocabulary of Bilingual Turkish Children in the Netherlands (by Schaufeli, Anneli); 11. From the Typewriter of A.L.: A Case Study in Language Loss (by Jaspaert, Koen); 12. Some Linguistic Consequences of the Shift from Swedish to Finnish in Finland (by Tandefelt, Marika); 13. II. Various Approaches Sociological Studies; 14. Ethnolinguistic Vitality Beliefs and Language Maintenance and Loss (by Allard, Real); 15. Convergence and Divergence: Two Cases of Language Shift in Morocco (by Bentahila, Abdelai); 16. Language Maintenance and Shift: Problems of Measurement (by Vries, John de); 17. Ethnolinguistic Vitality and the Bilingual Development of Minority and Majority Group Students (by Landry, Rodrigue); 18. Language Shift in India: Issues and Implications (by Pandharipande, Rajeshwari V.); 19. Minority Languages as Core Values of Ethnic Cultures: A Study of Maintenance and Erosion of Polish, Welsh, and Chinese Languages in Australia (by Smolicz, Jerzy J.); 20. Agencies of Language Reproduction in Celtic Societies (by Williams, Colin H.); 21. III. Various Approaches Descriptive Studies; 22. Language Competence and Use among Coastal Kadazan Children: A Survey Report (by Lasimbang, Rita); 23. Some Problems of Linguistic Minorities in Japan (by Miyawaki, Hiroyuki); 24. The Hawaiian Model for the Revitalization of Native Minority Cultures and Languages (by Niedzielski, Henry Z.); 25. Minority Language Maintenance and Learning as Instruments for Improving the Status of the Minority Group (by Miseska Tomic, Olga); 26. Prospects; 27. Conference Summary (by Fishman, Joshua A.)