Dialectology as Dialectic : : Interpreting Phula Variation /

Dialectology as Dialectic : : Interpreting Phula Variation / / Jamin R. Pelkey.

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Dialectology proper has traditionally focused on the geographic distribution of language variation as an end in itself and has remained relatively segregated from other branches of linguistic and extra-linguistic inquiry. Cross-fertilizing winds have been blowing through the field for more than a de...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Pelkey, Jamin R.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 229
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Physical Description:1 online resource (498 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of maps
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • General abbreviations
  • Data source abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 Introduction Synchronic Phula in diachronic perspective
  • Chapter 2 Research background Field methods, theory, and dialectology
  • Chapter 3 Synchronic language definitions Identity, intelligibility, and contact
  • Chapter 4 Ethnolinguistic vitality Contact, endangerment and shift
  • Chapter 5 Phula phonologies Five representative sketches
  • Chapter 6 The language clades of Phula Proper Establishing historical subgroupings
  • Chapter 7 Phula and Southeastern Ngwi Sani, Axi, Azhe, Azha, Nisu, and Phula Proper
  • Chapter 8 Conclusion Diachronic Phula in synchronic perspective
  • Appendix A Sociolinguistic questionnaires
  • Appendix B Lexical elicitation datasheet sample
  • Appendix C Similarity and distance matrices
  • Appendix D Sample RTT translation
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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