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Publication details [#49171]

Trudgill, Peter. 2008. Colonial dialect contact in the history of European languages: On the irrelevance of identity to new-dialect formation. Language in Society 37 (2) : 241–254.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | dialect1 | historical explanation | language contact

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper argues for the role of dialect mixture as the inevitable result of dialect contact, and against the role of identity, in the development of new colonial varieties of European languages.