The Multilingual Apple
Subtitle: Languages in New York City (Contributions to the Sociology of Language)
Contributors: Ofelia Garcia (Editor); Joshua A. Fishman (Editor)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9783110172812
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Sociolinguistics; New York; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Study & Teaching; Language; USA; New York (N.Y.); Linguistic minorities; Meertaligheid.; New York (State); gtt
First sentence: "On the island of Manhate, and in its environs, there may well be four or five hundred men of different sects and nations: The Director General told me that there were men of eighteen different languages."