The present volume aims at exploring the overall patterns of linguistic regionalism throughout Eastern Europe, casting also a comparative glance beyond this specific cultural setting into neighboring Western European regions. A wide array of aspects related to regional language designs are addressed, such as: linguistic rights, conflicting conceptualisations of linguistic regionalism, the role of the internet in identity modelling, the role of linguistics in language planning and research, etc. The volume is also designed to approach linguistic regionalism on a general theoretical level giving a critical assessment of Aleksandr Dulichenkös microlanguage paradigm. Case studies of individual projects as well as reports by regional language activist will provide the reader with glimpses of how regional language designs are set up and elaborated.

Linguistics regionalism in Eastern Europe - Slavic literary microlanguages - Language planning and design - Pomak -Banat Bulgarian - Bunyev - Lachian - Eastern Slovak - Kashubian - Moravian - Podlachian - Mirandese -Lombard - Sicilian - Limburgs

Dieter Stern
is chair of Slavic Philology at the University of Ghent/Belgium. He is a specialist in the sociolinguistics of Slavic languages, especially contact languages, and in Slavic historical linguistics and philology.

Motoki Nomachi
is Professor of Slavic linguistics in the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan. His research interests include language contact and sociolinguistics with special attention paid to Kashubian as well as other small languages.

Bojan Beli¿
is Principal Lecturer and Departmental Languages Coordinator in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington, USA. He conducts research in the general field of South Slavic linguistics with particular focus on syntactic phenomena, as well as language policy issues.