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Effects of Planned Change on Estonian Morphology


By Virve Raag
Dec. 1998 (Almqvist & Wiksell)
ISBN: 91-554-4204-8
156 p.
$46.50 Paper Original


This work is a contribution to the fascinating and highly controversial issue of language planning, i.e. intentional human intervention in language change. Four grammatical features launched by Estonian language reformers in the 1910s are compared to corresponding means of expression in written Estonian prior to their introduction.

Language Studies
Series: Studia Uralica Upsaliensia