Diaspora Language Contact - The Speech of Croatian Speakers Abroad (Hardcover)

This book is an innovative contribution to contact linguistics as it presents a rarely studied but sizeable diaspora language community in contact with five languages - English, German, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish - across four continents. Foregrounded by diachronic descriptions of heritage Croatian in long-standing minority communities the book presents synchronically based studies of the speech of different generations of diaspora speakers. Croatian offers excellent scope as a base language to examine how lexical and morpho-structural innovations occur in a highly inflective Slavic language where external influence from Germanic and Romance languages appears evident. The possibility of internal factors is also addressed and interpretive models of language change are drawn on. With a foreword by Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]
Release date:	October 2021
First published:	2021
Editors:	Jim Hlavac • Diana Stolac
Preface by:	Sarah Thomason
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	707
ISBN-13:	978-1-5015-1181-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
LSN:	1-5015-1181-5
Barcode:	9781501511813

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