New-dialect formation : the inevitability of colonial Englishes / / Peter Trudgill
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| Autore: |
Trudgill Peter
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| Titolo: |
New-dialect formation : the inevitability of colonial Englishes / / Peter Trudgill
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 427 |
| 427.9 | |
| 427/.9171241 | |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Great Britain - Colonies |
| English language - Commonwealth countries | |
| English language - Dialects - Great Britain - Colonies | |
| English language - Dialects - Commonwealth countries | |
| English language - Variation - Great Britain - Colonies | |
| English language - Variation - Commonwealth countries | |
| Languages in contact - Great Britain - Colonies | |
| Languages in contact - Commonwealth countries | |
| English language - 19th century - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-176) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 the |
| Titolo autorizzato: | New-dialect formation |
| ISBN: | 0-19-522043-9 |
| 1-280-64316-1 | |
| 9786610643165 | |
| 0-7486-2641-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820820803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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