Dialect death: the case of Brule Spanish
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1. Verfasser: Holloway, Charles E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins ©1997
Schriftenreihe:Studies in bilingualism v. 13
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and indexes
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
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ISBN:1556195478
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