By Harald Haarmann
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The list I have proposed of components for a model of ecological relations, representing a tentative overall ecological system (or system of language ecology), is not exhaustive. I am not presenting here a complete ecological theory. The model and its components represent instead a provisional framework or orientation intended to illustrate what I assume to be interdependent, influencing factors. But although this model is provisional and may undergo modifications in the course of application to real ecological settings, such a model is needed in order to show the links between it and special models of ecological relations derived from it.
Political discrimination). Ethnic boundaries, however, as a nexus of various features are an important subject in the study of ethnopolitical conflicts. b. the use of the term "Sprachnationen" (language nations) by Kloss (1969 a), the special relations between ethnicity and language are of vital importance in the analysis of ethnicity problems. Allardt (1979) therefore pays special attention to the role of language in the movements of "ethnic revival" among ethnic minorities in Western Europe.
This refinement may be revealed to be necessary in case of single variables as well as of variable clusters (i. , total functional ranges of ecological variables). But such a refinement can only be adequate as an a posteriori means on the basis of broad experience. 1), I used a more refined scale of metrical units in Haarmann (1983 a, 31) than in Haarmann (1980b, 220), as the special subjects of investigation in the former required a network of quantitative concepts that was more differenciated than was necessary for the more general purposes of the latter.