New-dialect formation : the inevitability of colonial Englishes /
This volume 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.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
2004.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv2f4vkzd |
| Summary: | This volume 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-176) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0748626417 9780748626410 0748618767 9780748618767 0748618775 9780748618774 0195220439 |