Language Death in the Isle of Man: An investigation into the decline and extinction of Manx Gaelic as a community...

Language Death in the Isle of Man: An investigation into the decline and extinction of Manx Gaelic as a community...
ISBN-10
3110911418
ISBN-13
9783110911411
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
313
Language
English
Published
1999-01-01
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Author
George Broderick

Description

This book looks in some detail into the sociolinguistic and formal linguistic situation which led to the decline and extinction of Manx Gaelic as a community language in the Isle of Man. The formal linguistic aspect concentrates upon developments in the following areas: phonology, morphophonology, morphology, morphosyntax and syntax, idiom and lexicon.

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