Isolation and language change: contemporary and sociohistorical evidence from tristan da cunha english
Auteur :
Schreier, D.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349509249
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2003
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.