New dialect formation and near-dialect contact
Linguists have often wondered how ‘new’ varieties of a language come into being. This chapter provides a theoretical discussion of recent research on these developments, paying particular attention to determinism , the founder principle and swamping . Varieties discussed include New Zealand, Newfoun...
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Edinburgh University Press
2016
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409087.003.0002 |
| Summary: | Linguists have often wondered how ‘new’ varieties of a language come into being. This chapter provides a theoretical discussion of recent research on these developments, paying particular attention to determinism , the founder principle and swamping . Varieties discussed include New Zealand, Newfoundland, Falkland Islands and Australian English, Glaswegian Scots and Scottish Standard English. The last is of particular interest, since it discusses contact producing a written variety. The concept of koineisation is introduced. |
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