Publications

Publication details [#51388]

Britain, David. 2009. One foot in the grave? Dialect death, dialect contact, and dialect birth in England. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009 (196-197) : 121–155.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect obsolescence | language contact | language spread | sociolinguistics | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study on English dialect contact and attrition in the U.K., discusses new dialect birth, proceeding on an very large spatial scale, using sociolinguistic and variationist research findings.