Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic DialectThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. |
Contents
Mapsxv | 4 |
of a Cultural Rivalry10 | 10 |
Development Linguistic Alignment | 42 |
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Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect Nancy C. Dorian No preview available - 1981 |
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adjective attitude behavior bilingual Brora Brora bilingual Celtic Change in Dying Clearances code switching Cultural Rivalry dative dialect distinction dominant Dorian Dornoch Dying ESG east coast East Sutherland East Sutherland Fishing eastern Sutherland Embo Embo bilingual English monolinguals ESG speakers Estate ethnic example exclusionary extinction factors favorable final mutation fisher fisherfolk fluent speakers fluent-speaker Gaelic Schools Gaelic speakers Gaelic-speaking genitive gerund Golspie Golspie bilingual guage Helmsdale Highland Highland English interlocutor Language Change language death language shift lenition linguistic Lowlands MacKay masculine nouns monolingual morphophonology nasalized nom./acc norm OFSS parish past tense percent person plural population proficiency pronoun replacement questionnaire reasons relatively responses Scotland Scottish Scottish Gaelic semi-speaker singular social Sociohistorical Setting Sociolinguistic Sociolinguistic Perspective speak Gaelic stigmatized subjective aesthetic Sutherland Fishing Communities Sutherland in Sociolinguistic teacher test sentences tion unmutated verb village vocative YFSs