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Description:
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The book presents unique literature in a minority ethnolect - theGermanic dialect of Wilamowice in southern Poland. The manuscripts, written at the beginning of the 20th century, were discovered in 1989.The book contains full versions of several texts written by FlorianBiesik, who decided to create a literary standard for Wilamowicean in order to prove its non-German, but possibly Anglo-Saxon, Dutch, Flemish, or Frisian origin. Thus it presents both the dialectal literature and the most important elements of the local culture during the final stage of its extinction.From the Contents:1. Preliminaries2. Wilamowice as a linguistic enclave3. Origin of the ethnolect4. Literature in Wilamowicean5. Florian Biesik6. Florian Biesik's texts7. Orthographic and phonetic issues8. Grammatical issues9. Lexical semantics10. Language archaisms and dialectisms11. Ethnolinguistic issues
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