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The institutionalization of separate standard varieties for Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian in the 1990s was hailed by many Bosnians as the long-denied recognition of the Bosnian idiom as distinct from the Serbian and Croatian varieties it had so often been subordinated under. Ye…

This dissertation is focused on socio-historical approaches to language change and lexical loss, particularly those connected with standardization, language policy and ideology. The study sheds light on the sociolinguistic effects that language standardization mechanisms have pl…