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Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence From Tristan da Cunha English - Palgrave Studies in Language Variation D. Schreier 1st ed. 2003 edition
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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.
237 pages, XV, 237 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9781349509249 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 237 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 326 g |
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