''Mikroglottika'' is a linguistic journal about
minority language
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s. Its goal is to promote the study of the
philology
Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...
,
phonology
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...
,
syntax
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, and
lexicon
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of minority languages, and constructive linguistic studies.
Editors
The journal is edited by Raúl Sánchez Prieto of the
University of Salamanca
The University of Salamanca ( es, Universidad de Salamanca) is a Spanish higher education institution, located in the city of Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It was founded in 1218 by King Alfonso IX. It is th ...
, Daniel Veith of University of Salamanca, and Mikel Martínez Areta of the
University of the Basque Country
The University of the Basque Country ( eu, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, ''EHU''; es, Universidad del País Vasco, ''UPV''; UPV/EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Bilbao, initially ...
,
and published by the
Peter Lang Publishing Group.
Articles
Below are some examples of the articles published in ''Mikroglottika'', taken from ''Mikroglottika Yearbook 2008'':
* M. Martínez Areta: ''La reconstrucción lingüística del proto-vasco: I. Fonética histórica''.
* D. Veith: ''Deutsche Sprache und Kultur in Rolândia. Ergebnisse einer sprachsoziologischen Enquête in Südbrasilien''.
* A. Pardo Fernández: ''El Llïonés y la TICs'' and ''Linguistica contrastiva italiano-leonese: vocalismo''.
* F. Sánchez: ''Diccionario de la variante leonesa de Las Arribes. Primer esbozo de la letra A''.
* R. Sánchez Prieto: ''La elaboración y aceptación de una norma lingüística en pequeñas comunidades dialectalmente divididas: el caso del leonés y del frisio del norte'' and ''Die Wortbildung im Luxemburgischen''.
* F. Schanen: ''Nominale Pluralbildung im Lëtzebuergëschen und Deutschen''.
* D. Hernández: ''Ukrainian multilingualism and the lingering question of 'Ukrainization'. A view in perspective''.
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://www.mikroglottika.com/ (now defunct)
Linguistics journals
Minority languages