New-dialect formation : the inevitability of colonial Englishes / Peter Trudgill.
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TextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2004Description: xii, 180 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: - 0748618767 :
- 0748618775 (pbk.) :
- 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
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 427.9171241 TRU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A418594B |
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1. Colonial dialects as mixed dialects -- 2. Colonial lag and Southern Hemisphere evidence for nineteenth-century British English -- 3. New-dialect formation: Stage I - rudimentary leveling and interdialect development -- 4. Stage II - variability and apparent levelling in new-dialect formation -- 5. Stage III - determinism in new-dialect formation -- 6. Drift: parallel developments in the Southern Hemisphere Englishes -- 7. Determinism and social factors.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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