The survival of people and languages : : schooners, goats and cassava in St. Barthélemy, French West Indies /

The survival of people and languages : : schooners, goats and cassava in St. Barthélemy, French West Indies / / by Julianne Maher.

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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
:
Maher, Julianne.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; 5.
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.

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