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)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $174.21

  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.