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English on Croker Island : The Synchronic and Diachronic Dynamics of Contact and Variation / Robert Mailhammer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 109Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XI, 253 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110707755
  • 9783110707946
  • 9783110707854
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427.9/94295 23
LOC classification:
  • PE3601.Z9 M35 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Overview and context -- 2 English on Croker Island: Sociohistorical background -- 3 Phonetics and phonology -- 4 Morphosyntax -- 5 Lexicon and constructions -- 6 The fluidity of variation -- 7 Layers of contact -- 8 Theoretical implications -- 9 Summary and conclusions -- References -- Index
Summary: Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and language contact. These results have significant ramifications for how variation is modelled, for our understanding of how postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the dynamics of complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker Island into a typological context of World Englishes by establishing a profile according to the parameters of the World Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE). It is of interest to academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English, language contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Overview and context -- 2 English on Croker Island: Sociohistorical background -- 3 Phonetics and phonology -- 4 Morphosyntax -- 5 Lexicon and constructions -- 6 The fluidity of variation -- 7 Layers of contact -- 8 Theoretical implications -- 9 Summary and conclusions -- References -- Index

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Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and language contact. These results have significant ramifications for how variation is modelled, for our understanding of how postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the dynamics of complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker Island into a typological context of World Englishes by establishing a profile according to the parameters of the World Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE). It is of interest to academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English, language contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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