Isolation and Language Change

D. Schreier

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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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.

ISBN-13
9781349509249
ISBN-10
1349509248
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2003
Publication date
2003-01-01
Pages
237
Dimensions
216x140x