The Decay of a Language: The Case of a German Dialect in the Italian Alps - Softcover

Dal Negro, Silvia

 
9783039102129: The Decay of a Language: The Case of a German Dialect in the Italian Alps
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3039102125 ISBN 13: 9783039102129
Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang, 2004

Synopsis

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 endangered language.

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About the Author

The Author: Silvia Dal Negro, born in Zürich in 1968, teaches Linguistics at the Università del Piemonte Orientale and conducts research on minority languages, dialects and language contact in northern Italy. Her research interests also include phenomena of language contact and acquisition in Switzerland and multilingualism in Italy.

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Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3039102125
ISBN 13 
9783039102129
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
261

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