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10.1 Introduction 10.1 Introduction
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10.2 Stalinism and Romance Linguistics: the case of Moldovan 10.2 Stalinism and Romance Linguistics: the case of Moldovan
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10.2.1 Historical background 10.2.1 Historical background
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10.2.2 The linguistic issue 10.2.2 The linguistic issue
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10.2.3 The broader context 10.2.3 The broader context
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10.3 Fascism and Romance Linguistics: the case of Maltese 10.3 Fascism and Romance Linguistics: the case of Maltese
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10.3.1 Introduction 10.3.1 Introduction
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10.3.2 Historical background 10.3.2 Historical background
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10.3.3 The linguistic issue 10.3.3 The linguistic issue
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10.3.4 Fighting the Fourth Punic War 10.3.4 Fighting the Fourth Punic War
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10.3.5 Summary 10.3.5 Summary
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10.4 The view from history 10.4 The view from history
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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10 Moldovan and Maltese: The poverty of historicism in Romance linguistics
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Published:April 2024
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Abstract
This chapter examines two linguistic issues which came to prominence during the years between the First and Second World Wars—the emergence of the concept of Moldovan as a distinct language from Romanian, and the controversy over the origins and linguistic affiliation of Maltese. The chapter claims that the developments and debates involved, whatever the differences between them on the surface, share a fundamental similarity, in as much as each has at its core the subversion of historical linguistics to serve political and ideological ends and can be regarded as representing linguistic historicism (in the sense of Popper)—a deterministic and teleological approach to language history.
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