Dialect Death

Dialect Death
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9789027241191
ISBN-13 : 9027241198
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Book Synopsis Dialect Death by : Charles E. Holloway

Download or read book Dialect Death written by Charles E. Holloway and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s. A few residents in and around the Ascension Parish area still speak an archaic dialect of Spanish which is at the brink of linguistic extinction. Because the Brule dialect is in the final stages of what is commonly known as “language death”, the case of Brule Spanish presents an exciting opportunity to investigate commonly held assumptions regarding the structural changes often associated with vestigial languages. Its relative isolation from other dialects of Spanish for over two hundred years serves as a sort of linguistic “time capsule” which provides information that is relevant to critical outstanding issues in Hispanic dialectology and historical linguistics. In addition to examining these issues, documenting the specific characteristics of Brule Spanish, and comparing Brule Spanish with other modern Spanish dialects, this book presents a very accessible introduction to the field of language death.


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