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Publication details [#60230]

Riehl, Claudia Maria. 2015. Language attrition, language contact and the concept of relic variety: the case of Barossa German. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2015 (236) : 261–293.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper focuses on attrition phenomena in the particular Barossa German relic variety, spoken in a very small, isolated South Australian enclave. The major factors affecting the reduction process (of morphological markers) are input variety, normativity decline, and written variety lack.