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Language Maintenance and Language Death : the decline of Texas Alsatian.
This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with min...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Culture and language use ;
6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with minimal change for six generations. Texas Alsatian has maintained lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic features which differentiate it from the prevalent standard-near varieties of Texas German. This study both describes its grammatical features and discusses extra-linguistic factors contributing. |
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| Notas: | 6.4.2 The Texas German community: not "the other"? |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275035 9027275033 9027202885 9789027202888 128049767X 9781280497674 9786613592903 6613592900 |