Grammatical variation and change in Jersey English

Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of spoken...

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Autor principal: Rosen, Anna (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company [2014]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Varieties of English around the world ; v. G48.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of spoken material containing both present-day sociolinguistic and archive data, it thereby reveals an intricate network of variation and change in this language-shift variety. The study adopts a cross-varietal approach for its analyses, which enables a first more systematic comparison between the Englishes spoken on Jersey, on its sister island Guernsey and beyond. In addition, it discusses the implications of identity aspects for language use in Jersey. The book will therefore be of major interest to any researcher or student working in the areas of language variation and change, language contact or dialectology and to those interested in sociolinguistic methodology and the relationships between language and identity.
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Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.