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Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence From Tristan da Cunha English - Palgrave Studies in Language Variation D. Schreier 2003 edition
Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence From Tristan da Cunha English - Palgrave Studies in Language Variation
D. Schreier
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.
256 pages, notes, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 2, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9781403904072 |
| Publishers | Palgrave USA |
| Pages | 237 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 18 mm · 494 g |
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