@phdthesis{80735,
  address               = {Ann Arbor},
  author                = {Lasswell, Steven Theophilos},
  pages                 = {389},
  publisher             = {UMI},
  school                = {University of California at Santa Barbara},
  title                 = {An Ecological Reference Grammar of Solring North Frisian (Germany)},
  year                  = {1998},
  abstract              = {S&ouml;lring is one of the varieties of North Frisian, spoken on the islands and along the northwestern coast of the modern administrative district of Nordfriesland in the German Bundesland of Schleswig-Holstein. This reference grammar, the first comprehensive linguistic treatment of any type of North Frisian, presents a description of the autochthonous language of the island of S&ouml;l (Ger. Sylt) against the background of an extensive ethnography of its speakers. Since their putative immigration from the Frisian homeland on the southern coast of the North Sea, northern Frisians have been faced with constant struggles in an inhospitable environment that, over the centuries, has fragmented the region territorially and ravaged its inhabitants as the result of recurrent storm tides (Ger. <italic>Sturmfluten</italic>). Along with their struggle against the sea, they have long found themselves at the center of power-seeking forces converging from outside, and as a result of their position &ldquo;in the middle&rdquo;, Frisian interests in promoting their language and culture have been curtailed time and again. After suffering the effects of two World Wars and dramatic demographic changes immediately following the second, North Frisia is now an integrated part of the German state. S&ouml;l in particular has borne the brunt of. the changes wrought by the development of popular resort tourism, and much of its traditional culture has been lost in the wake of its inundation by outsiders. One cultural artifact in danger of being lost completely is S&ouml;lring itself, which&mdash;as the rest of Frisian&mdash;bears a close genetic relationship to English. In past centuries, North Frisian was strongly influenced by Danish, Low Saxon (Low German), and Dutch, while in recent years, contact influence has almost exclusively been exerted by (High) German. A campaign to maintain and revitalize North Frisian is underway, but one of the difficulties in counteracting attrition lies in the relative lack of structural development that is needed for (potential) speakers to be able to cope with certain aspects of modern life. The dissertation considers some of the complex factors involved in revitalization, and anticipates the positives that can arise from Pan-Frisian confrontation of minority language issues.},
  adviser               = {Chafe, Wallace},
  bestfn                = {eurasia\lasswell_soelring1998_o.pdf},
  besttxt               = {ptxt\eurasia\lasswell_frisian-solring1998.txt},
  cfn                   = {eurasia\lasswell_soelring1998_o.pdf},
  class_loc             = {P59.C2 S25},
  degree                = {PhD},
  delivered             = {eurasia\lasswell_soelring1998_o.pdf},
  digital_formats       = {PDF 16.82Mb image-only PDF},
  document_type         = {B},
  fn                    = {eurasia\lasswell_frisian-solring1998.pdf, eurasia\lasswell_soelring1998_o.pdf, eurasia/lasswell_soelring1998_o.pdf, eurasia\lasswell _ecological1998.pdf},
  hhtype                = {grammar},
  inlg                  = {English [eng]},
  isbn                  = {9780599208063},
  lgcode                = {Solring North Frisian = Northern Frisian [frr]},
  macro_area            = {Eurasia},
  mpi_eva_library_shelf = {P 59 .C2 S25 LAS 2007},
  mpifn                 = {soelring_lasswell1998_o.pdf},
  source                = {DAI-A 60/03, p. 725, Sep 1999},
  src                   = {hh, mpieva},
  subject               = {LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS (0290); HISTORY, EUROPEAN (0335)},
  subject_headings      = {Frisian language, Frisian language},
  umi_id                = {9921588}
}