North American Icelandic: The Life of a Language - Softcover

Arnbjornsdottir, Birna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887556949 ISBN 13: 9780887556944

Verlag: University of Manitoba Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Arnbjornsdottir Birna

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Reseña del editor:

North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it. North American Icelandic is the only book about the nature and development of this variety of Icelandic. It details the social and linguistic constraints of one specific feature of North American Icelandic phonology undergoing change, namely Flámæli, which is the merger of two sets of front vowels. Although Flámæli was once a part of traditional Icelandic, it was considered too confusing and was systematically eradicated from the language. But in North America, Flámæli use spread unchecked, allowing the rare opportunity of viewing the evolution of a dialect from its birth to its impending demise.

Biografía del autor:

Birna Arnbjornsdottir is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Iceland.

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• Verlag: University of Manitoba Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0887556949
• ISBN 13: 9780887556944
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178