The survival of people and languages : : schooners, goats and cassava in St. Barthélemy, French West Indies / / by Julianne Maher.
In The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies , Julianne Maher explains a rare linguistic anomaly, how a small homogeneous population of seventeenth century French settlers in the tiny island of St. Barth came to speak four separate langu...
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Superior document: | Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture, volume 5 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, 2013. |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1. Origins
- 2. History’s Shuttlecock
- 3. The Social Ecology of St. Barthélemy
- 4. The Languages of St. Barthélemy
- 5. Language Survival and Language Loss
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1. The St. Barth 1681 Census
- Appendix 2. Language Samples from Recorded Interviews
- References
- Index.