| The Decay of a Language: The Case of a German Dialect in the Italian Alps Contributor(s): Negro, Silvia Dal (Author), Dal Negro, Silvia (Author) |
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ISBN: 082046872X ISBN-13: 9780820468723 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Yiddish |
| Dewey: 437.945 |
| LCCN: 2004048511 |
| Physical Information: 261 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Topic of this volume is Pomattertitsch, a German dialect which is doomed to extinction. This Allemanic (Walser) dialect is spoken at Formazza, a tiny Alpine community in Italy, and after centuries of semi-secluded existence is now undergoing major transformations due to the rapidly declining number of its speakers and the limited range of its functions. Within the framework of language decay and death this analysis focuses on phenomena of linguistic variation at a morphosyntactic level. This comprehensive study includes a large body of spoken data collected from informants of different age groups and with different levels of language fluency and thus displays a unique picture of an endagered language. |