Mediterranean Language Review

Edited by Matthias Kappler, Werner Arnold, Teresa Gruber and Christian Voß with the editorial assistance of Maria Petrou

The Mediterranean Language Review is an interdisciplinary forum for the investigation of language and culture in the Mediterranean, Southeast Europe and the Black Sea, past and present. The editors of this periodical welcome articles, reviews, review articles, and bibliographical surveys in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish relating to the following aspects of Mediterranean languages, past and present:

• linguistic contact and diffusion in the Mediterranean and Black Sea area and its hinterland and the Balkan Peninsula; interaction of language and culture in the region; case studies of linguistic relativity; culturally determined language behaviour;
• the historical evolution and present state of languages spoken by small nations and ethnic minorities (e.g. Berber, Albanian in Italy and Greece, Neo-Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Judezmo, etc.); language problems endemic to small speaker communities in the region; ethnolinguistic research on Bedouin; religion and language: confessional affiliation and language use; liturgical languages;
• ethnolinguistic studies on island communities in the Mediterranean (Corsica, Sardinia, Cyprus, Malta, the Greek islands, etc.); linguistic obsolescence; linguistic stratification: areal typology and the languages of the Mediterranean and Black Sea littoral and of Southeast Europe; substratal phenomena;
• interlinguas: “Kultursprachen” of the Mediterranean (Greek, Latin, Italian, Arabic, etc.); the lexical impact of globalization; Mediterranean Lingua Franca; maritime linguistics; lexical convergence; relics of colonial and maritime English, e.g. in Maltese, Egyptian Arabic, Cypriot Greek, etc.; marginal language;
• approaches to Mediterranean lexicology (“Worte und Sachen”); ethnolinguistic studies of traditional professions; the levelling linguistic impact of globalization.

Please send contributions from romance studies to Teresa.Gruber@romanistik.uni-muenchen.de

For detailed author guidelines, please visit: https://www.hfjs.eu/hochschule/profil/publikationen/mediterranean-language-review.html