Diaspora language contact : the speech of Croatian speakers abroad

Author(s)

• Hlavac, Jim
• Stolac, Diana

Bibliographic Information

Diaspora language contact : the speech of Croatian speakers abroad

edited by Jim Hlavac and Diana Stolac ; with a foreword by Sarah Thomason

（Language contact and bilingualism, v. 17）

De Gruyter Mouton, c2021

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book is an innovative contribution to contact linguistics as it presents a rarely studied but sizeable diaspora language community in contact with five languages - English, German, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish - across four continents. Foregrounded by diachronic descriptions of heritage Croatian in long-standing minority communities the book presents synchronically based studies of the speech of different generations of diaspora speakers. Croatian offers excellent scope as a base language to examine how lexical and morpho-structural innovations occur in a highly inflective Slavic language where external influence from Germanic and Romance languages appears evident. The possibility of internal factors is also addressed and interpretive models of language change are drawn on. With a foreword by Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BD01705834
• ISBN:
  • 9781501511813
• LCCN: 2021932205
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 692 pages
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PG1224.75
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Croatian language -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Croatian language -- Spoken Croatian
  • LCSH : Croatian language -- Foreign elements
  • LCSH : Languages in contact
  • LCSH : Croats -- Foreign countries
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB06654543