Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for
examining the processes of language change and dialect formation.
This book presents findings of the first-ever ethnographic
fieldwork on the most remote island in the world with a permanent
population, Tristan da Cunha. It documents the historical formation
of a unique local dialect and investigates the sociolinguistic
mechanisms that underlie dialect contact and new-dialect formation.
It also uncovers the linguistic consequences of post-insularity -
language change processes as a result of increasing contacts with
other communities and speakers. Researchers and students of
language variation will find this book a unique resource.
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