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Institutional Breton language policy after language shift [PDF]

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2013
The last twenty years have seen a remarkable change in public and institutional support for Breton language promotion. Language activists who had previously resisted and opposed the actions of the French state are now to the fore in designing and implementing institutional language policies to promote Breton, particularly in schooling, adult learning ...
Tadhg O Hifearnáin
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Breton as a V2 language

Linguistics, 2000
Breton has VSO order in subordinate clauses and in some main clauses, but it does not normally allow a finite verb in initial position in main clauses, which instead show V2 order. We investigate Breton V2 structures and argue that they are problematic for transformational assumptions.
ROBERT D. BORSLEY, ANDREAS KATHOL
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Célestin Lainé and Breton: a language for combat

La Bretagne Linguistique, 2011
Célestin Lainé and Breton. This is not an obvious association for anyone who knows anything about Lainé. For example in 1932 this Breton nationalist activist had the monument in Rennes symbolising Brittany’s attachment to France blown up, and just before the Second World War he raised a small Breton army, which was given the name ‘Bezen Perrot’ after ...
Sébastien Carney
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The present and the future of Breton language in France

Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2011
The article deals with the situation of the regional or minority languages and with the Breton language as an example. The work reveals the situation and status of the Breton language in modern society, as well as specific examples of the use of linguistic units in the language.
N F Mikheeva, O A Illarionova
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Breton and Cornish Studies: Language, Linguistics and Literature [PDF]

The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, 2022
Abstract This is a critical bibliographical survey of academic studies published in 2024 in the area of Breton and Cornish Studies.
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André Breton, The Power of Language [PDF]

Studi Francesi, 2004
Questo volume collettivo raggruppa venti studi (senza contare l’introduzione) che hanno preso forma attorno ad un tema suggestivo e stimolante. E allo stesso fondatore del movimento e alle sue piu tarde affermazioni che si rifanno, tutto sommato, questi saggi, che hanno tutti per scopo ultimo l’analisi del potere del linguaggio e l’impatto della ...
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Breton: The Breton language in education in France

, 2003
2nd ed.
ar Mogn, Olier, Hicks, Davyth
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Breton-language media: opportunities and challenges

, 2022
This article presents findings from a number of interviews carried out with Breton-language professionals regarding their consumption of and participation in media in both Breton and French. The issues raised highlight some of the advantages that media in minoritized languages can offer, as well as the issues they may need to overcome in order to reach
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Nominal properties of vPs in Breton [PDF]

, 2005
Celtic and Semitic languages show the following clustering of typological properties: (i) the Complementarity Principle in the verbal agreement system; (ii) licensing of a genitive dependent by a construct state; (iii) a verbal construction whose object bears genitive.
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100 Years of Literature in the Breton Language (1920-2020)

Studia Celto-Slavica, 2023
Literature written in the Breton language in the 20th and 21st centuries presents something of a paradox in that although the number of Breton speakers has continued to decrease throughout the 20th century and in the first decades of the 21st century (Broudic 2009), the number of works published per year has remained at a relatively stable level ...
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