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