New-Dialect Formation
Subtitle: The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: September 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780748618774
Subjects: Dialectology; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
First sentence: If we attempt to explain why colonial Englishes - for example American English - are different from the English of Britain, whence they originally came, it is reasonably clear what explanatory factors should be proposed: I. American English (for instance) has adapted to new topographical and biological features unknown in Britain: for example, as is well known, the word robin in North America refers to a bird which is different from its referent in Britain; and the word bluff has been extended to refer to a cliff or headland along a river.