Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan Da Cunha English (Palgrave Studies in Language Variation)

Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan Da Cunha English (Palgrave Studies in Language Variation)

by Daniel Schreier (Author), Daniel Schreier (Author), Todd J. Moss (Author)

Synopsis

Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. It documents the historical formation of a unique local dialect and investigates the sociolinguistic mechanisms that underlie dialect contact and new-dialect formation.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 254
Edition: 2003
Publisher: AIAA
Published: 02 May 2003

ISBN 10: 1403904073
ISBN 13: 9781403904072