A Linguistic Anthropology of Praxis and Language Shift: Arvanitika (Albanian) and Greek in Contact(Oxford Studies in Language Contact)

Series: Oxford Studies in Language Contact

This book explores a case of linguistic shift in the Balkans by focusing on Arvanitika, an Albanian variety spoken in Greece which is under threat through a process of attrition. The author looks in detail at the various factors relating the linguistic to the non-linguistic aspects of the shift.