Dialect death : the case of Brule Spanish /
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 i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©1997.
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| Series: | Studies in bilingualism ;
v. 13. |
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| Online Access: | Available via EBSCO eBook Collection |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 pages) : map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027282743 9027282749 1556195478 9781556195471 9027241198 9789027241191 |