Dialect death: the case of Brule Spanish
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In this book, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delight…
This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin.
This book traces the origins and development of the Arabic grammatical marker s/si, which is found in interrogatives, negators, and indefinite determiners over a broad dialect area that stretches from the southern Levant to North Africa and includes dialects of Yemen and Oman. D…
Das »Wörterbuch zum jiddischen Lehnwortschatz in den deutschen Dialekten« behandelt den jahrhundertelang andauernden Sprachenkontakt zwischen dem Westjiddischen und dem Deutschen, der sich besonders stark in der gesprochenen Sprache niedergeschlagen hat und jetzt der Vergangenhe…
Main description: The>>Dictionary of Yiddish Loan-Words in German Dialects<<documents contact between the German and Yiddish languages, with special reference to German dialects. The material was taken from German dialect dictionaries, compiled systematically and revised lexicog…
