This volume presents the articles published 2008 in the online periodical . Its purpose is to provide philologies of minority languages with a platform of discussion. The range of topics dealt with in this book may have to do with the linguistic or philological description of a minority language in relation to any parameter (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon etc., the discussion being synchronic or diachronic), or they may imply the sociolinguistic description of a particular situation in which one or several minority languages are involved. The book contains contributions in English, Spanish, and German.

The Editors: Raúl Sánchez Prieto is professor of German grammar and language at the University of Salamanca (Spain). Daniel Veith is a lecturer of German philology at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg (Germany) in 2006. Mikel Martínez Areta is an assistant lecturer of Basque language and culture at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). His research focuses on the history of the Basque language.

Contents: Mikel Martínez Areta: The linguistic reconstruction of proto-Basque. II. Historical morphology of the noun – Andoni Barreña/Iñaki García: Niños monolingües y bilingües adquiriendo el euskara como primera lengua. Diferencias en el ritmo de adquisición – Ana Sánchez Santolino: Raíces de la relación del bajo alemán con la ideología nacionalsocialista – Abel Pardo Fernández: Norma medieval leonesa y variedades asturianas. La consolidación del modelo normativo Llïonés en la Edad Media – Raúl Sánchez Prieto: Linguistische Analyse der luxemburgischen Blogosphäre – Daniel Veith: Kleines Wörterbuch der Italianismen am Río de la Plata. Inhaltsverzeichnis