This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of diachronic material in the form of letters, court cases, ghost stories, etc. The analysis is embedded into a theoretical framework of contact linguistics (contact dialectology and pidgin/creole...
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Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 330 ● ISBN 9789027290137 ● Utgivare John Benjamins Publishing Company ● Publicerad 2008 ● Nedladdningsbara 3 gånger ● Valuta EUR ● ID 4232772 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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