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ISBN:
9780748631414
Content:
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 dis
Content:
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
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748626168
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748626175
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780748626168
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Labrador
;
Englisch
;
Newfoundland
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