ISBN:
9780230505261
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Language Variation Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.44099729999999
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Contact, Isolation and Language Change: A Theoretical Framework -- Introduction -- Dialect contact and koinéisation -- Language contact -- Change without contact: enclave communities -- 3 Tristan da Cunha -- Topographical and geophysical aspects -- A social history of Tristan da Cunha -- Sociolinguistic and linguistic implications -- Conclusion -- 4 Methodology and Fieldwork -- The 'pre-history' of the Tristan da Cunha project -- Fieldwork on Tristan da Cunha -- Fieldwork and ethnographic activities -- Defining the object of investigation -- 5 Determining Input Interaction: Present Tense Concord -- Present tense concord in British English -- Present tense marking in TdCE -- Historical and contemporary aspects of present tense marking in TdCE -- Discussion and conclusion: input interaction and feature selection -- 6 Categoricality and Levelling: Present/Past be Regularisation -- The special status of be in English -- Historical and contemporary aspects of be levelling -- The patterning of is/was regularisation in TdCE: an overview -- Discussion and conclusion: transplantation and categoricality -- 7 Dynamism v. Retention: 'Completive done' -- 'Completive done' in world English -- The (Aux) done V(ed) construction: an overview -- 'Completive done' in TdCE -- Discussion and conclusion: dynamic or archaic? -- 8 Innovation and Independent Developments: Useta went -- Delineating useta went -- Regular and irregular verbs -- Past tense marking in non-standard English -- Tense marking in TdCE -- The useta went construction -- Discussion and conclusion: insularity and innovation -- 9 Conclusion -- Selection -- Conservatism v. innovation -- Post-insularity -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C.
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