FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSERVATISM AND PURISM IN LANGUAGES OF NORTHERN EUROPE (NORDIC, BALTIC, FINNIC)

• Authors: Iwona Piechnik
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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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.

Keywords

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conservatism, purism, change, rate, evolution, Nordic, Germanic, Baltic, Finnic

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 4

Dates

online

2014-12-22

Contributors

author

Iwona Piechnik