03464nam 2200793Ia 450 991082082080332120200520144314.00-19-522043-91-280-64316-197866106431650-7486-2641-710.1515/9780748626410(CKB)1000000000351204(EBL)275805(OCoLC)476021261(SSID)ssj0000211017(PQKBManifestationID)12075387(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211017(PQKBWorkID)10291630(PQKB)11382575(MiAaPQ)EBC275805(DE-B1597)614957(DE-B1597)9780748626410(OCoLC)1306537915(EXLCZ)99100000000035120420030925d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew-dialect formation the inevitability of colonial Englishes /Peter Trudgill1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Pressc20041 online resource (201 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-1876-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-176) and index.Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Maps; Vowel Charts; Chapter 1 – Colonial dialects; Chapter 2 – Colonial lag; Chapter 3 – New-dialect formation Stage I; Chapter 4 – Stage II; Chapter 5 – Stage III; Chapter 6 – Drift; Chapter 7 – Determinism; References; Index; This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French and North American English, but concentrates on Australian and South African English, with a particular emphasis on the development of the newest major variety of the language, New Zealand English. Peter Trudgill argues that the linguistic growth of these new varieties of English was essentially deterministic, in the sense that their phonologies are the predictable outcome of the mixture of dialects taken from theEnglish languageGreat BritainColoniesEnglish languageCommonwealth countriesEnglish languageDialectsGreat BritainColoniesEnglish languageDialectsCommonwealth countriesEnglish languageVariationGreat BritainColoniesEnglish languageVariationCommonwealth countriesLanguages in contactGreat BritainColoniesLanguages in contactCommonwealth countriesEnglish language19th centuryHistoryEnglish languageColonies.English languageEnglish languageDialectsColonies.English languageDialectsEnglish languageVariationColonies.English languageVariationLanguages in contactColonies.Languages in contactEnglish languageHistory.427427.9427/.9171241Trudgill Peter152018MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820820803321New-dialect formation1113621UNINA