New-Dialect Formation : the Inevitability of Colonial Englishes.

This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French and North American English, but concentrates on Australian and South African English, with a particular emphasis on t...

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Main Author: Tridgill, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
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