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Author Holloway, Charles E.

Title Dialect death : the case of Brule Spanish / Charles E. Holloway.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, [1997]
©1997
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Description 1 online resource (220 pages) : map.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in bilingualism ; v. 13
Studies in bilingualism ; v. 13.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and indexes.
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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Subject Spanish language -- Dialects -- Louisiana -- Ascension Parish.
Spanish language -- Dialects.
Louisiana -- Ascension Parish.
Language attrition -- Louisiana -- Ascension Parish.
Language attrition.
Sociolinguistics -- Louisiana -- Ascension Parish.
Sociolinguistics.
Canary Islanders -- Louisiana -- Ascension Parish -- History.
Canary Islanders.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Holloway, Charles E. Dialect death. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©1997 1556195478 (DLC) 96006508 (OCoLC)36104178
ISBN 9789027282743 (electronic book)
9027282749 (electronic book)
1556195478
9781556195471
9027241198
9789027241191

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