Title: NEW-DIALECT FORMATION: THE INEVITABILITY OF COLONIAL ENGLISHES
Description: "This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French and North American English, but concentrates on Australian and South African English, with a particular emphasis on the development of the newest major variety of the language, New Zealand English."--Jacket.
Subjects: English language, great britain, English language, dialects, English language, variation, Languages in contact, English language, history, Great britain, colonies, English language, Colonies, Dialects, Variation, History