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Newfoundland and Labrador English /
This book is the first full-length volume to offer a comprehensive introduction to the English spoken in Britain's oldest overseas colony, and, since 1949, Canada's youngest province. Within North America, Newfoundland and Labrador English is a highly distinctive speech variety. It is know...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Dialects of English.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : history, geography and demography. Newfoundland and Labrador English as a distinct speech variety ; From European discovery to the present : an historical overview ; Settlement history and regional differences ; A note on the terminology used in this volume
- Phonetics and phonology. Phonetics and phonology : some basic terminology ; Vowel patterns ; Consonant features ; Sound segments in contact : deletion, insertion, assimilation ; Prosodic features ; A final note
- Morphosyntax. Introduction ; The verb ; Nouns, pronouns and determiners ; Other lexical categories ; Non-standard syntactic features ; Concluding remarks
- Vocabulary and discourse features. The conservative nature of NLE lexicon ; The southwest English contribution ; The Irish contribution ; Fishery and maritime-related vocabulary ; New words and meanings in NLE ; Regional variation ; Discourse features; Recent lexical change and lexical loss
- Language attitudes and language change. Outsiders' views of Newfoundaland and Labrador ; Attitudes to Newfoundland dialects ; Academic and educational perspectives ; Recent phonological and grammatical change ; Change at the levels of lexicon and discourse ; Concluding remarks
- Survey of previous work. Observations on NLE prior to 1950 ; Post-1950 : linguistic approaches to NLE ; Ongoing and future research
- Sample texts. Conservative NBE ; Conservative NIE ; Conservative NBE r-deleting : speaker 5 ; Conservative NBE Labrador speakers ; Contemporary younger speakers.