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The emergence of a standard language is an experience common to all the Germanic languages, but
it occurred at very different times in different places. By 1750 German can, by general agreement,
be said to have achieved written standardisation. By contrast Faroese was not standardised until the
late nineteenth century, and Luxemburgish is arguably still on the way. Questions of language
standardisation have often tended to be a national, or at least language-specific, preoccupation, a
tendency often reinforced in recent research by scholars' own language-specific specialisations.
By focussing on issues of standardisation across all the Germanic languages, this international
conference seeks to promote awareness of standardisation issues in a number of different, but
related, languages, and so encourage reflection on common, or perhaps universal aspects of
language standardisation processes.
Submitted by: Andrew Linn
Date received: December 07, 2000, revised December 20, 2000
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