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The Making of a Language : The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice, Southern Poland.
Title:
The Making of a Language : The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice, Southern Poland.
Author:
Wicherkiewicz, Tomasz.
ISBN:
9783110905403
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (550 pages)
Series:
Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] ; v.19

Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC]
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. General introduction -- 1.2. Methodological remarks -- 2. Wilamowice as a linguistic enclave -- 2.1. The town of Wilamowice -- 2.2. The history of Wilamowice and its ethnolect -- 2.3. Literature on Bielsko-Biała and other Silesian German linguistic enclaves -- 3. Origin of the ethnolect -- 3.1. The Wilamowicean ethnotheory of origin -- 3.2. Translation of Biesik VIII. Wymysau an wymysojer -- 4. Literature in Wilamowicean -- 5. Florian Biesik -- 5.1. Florian Biesik's manuscript -- 5.2. Illustrations -- 5.3. Florian Biesik's introduction to BiesikI. Óf jer wełt -- 5.4. Florian Biesik's biography -- 6. Florian Biesik's texts -- Biesik I. Óf jer wełt -- Footnotes to BiesikI -- Biesik II. Óm mjer -- Footnotes to BiesikII -- Biesik lll. S'wymysojerysze -- Biesik lV. Dy drużba -- Biesik V. S wymysojer mákia -- Biesik VI. Dy "saison halykja" -- Footnotes to Biesik VI -- Biesik VII. S gre-gre-gregory -- Biesik VIII. Wymysau an Wymysojer -- Biesik lX. Dy nójy póterba?wa kultur -- Footnotes to Biesik lX -- Biesik X. S'wymysojer wunder -- Footnotes to Biesik X -- 7. Orthographic and phonetic issues -- 8. Grammatical issues -- 8.1. Syntax -- 8.2. Morphology -- 8.3. Morphonology -- 9. Lexical semantics -- 9.1. Kinship terms -- 9.2. Family names -- 9.3. Christian names -- 9.4. Nicknames -- 9.5. Toponymics -- 10. Language archaisms and dialectisms -- 11. Ethnolinguistic issues -- 11.1. Folk costumes -- 11.2. Folk culture -- 11.3. Weaving industry and trade -- 11.4. Folk mythology -- 11.5. Local cuisine -- 11.6. Religious life -- 11.7. Polish patriotism, anti-Germanism and anti-Semitism -- Endnotes -- Appendices -- Index of persons referred to in Biesik's poems -- Index of words and forms used in Biesik's poems not recorded in Mojmir's dictionary.

Phonetic transcription (first 36 stanzas of Óf jer wełl) -- Florian Biesik's texts published by Heinrich Anders (1933) -- References.
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