... second period of linguistic work stimulated by scientific interest rather than missionary zeal in North America. ... that had taken place in a single language or in the various languages belonging to one family (Goddard 1914:560).
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Language: en
Pages: 765
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Language: en
Pages: 418
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This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion
Language: en
Pages: 396
Pages: 396
Thoroughly revised and updated with some 500 new entries- including the addition of pertinent Internet sites-this is the only bibliographic guide to information sources for linguistics. Coverage spans from 1957 to the present, and DeMiller's detailed citations describe and evaluate each work, often offering comparisons to similar titles. Essential to
Language: en
Pages: 426
Pages: 426
This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. Some authors utilize their
Language: en
Pages: 440
Pages: 440
An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.