Settler migration and settler varieties

Schreier, Daniel; Eberle, Nicole; Perez, Danae

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“…Such communities are at the periphery of their host populations, often also spatially segregated, and the varieties they develop emerge out of a feature pool of variants shared by multiple ethnic groups (Schreier et al 2017). The features adopted are typically shared across minorities, but they may also spread out and become used by members of majority groups.…”

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Dialect Formation in Isolated Communities

Schreier

2017

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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This article explores major processes that operate in new dialect formation, with a focus on the effects of various kinds of isolation of communities and their speakers. A sociolinguistic approach concentrates on competition and selection between transplanted dialect features and mechanisms such as mixing, leveling, simplification, and reallocation. With reference to the established (yet not uncontroversial) concept of the feature pool, the question is how contact between distinct systems gives rise to localized forms. From a more socially oriented perspective, the question is how the integration and segregation of groups contributes to or shapes the emergence and disappearance of dialects. Isolation as a sociolinguistic concept is not thoroughly defined, particularly at the intergroup, societal, or even national level; therefore, geographic, social, and psychological factors need to be discussed and assessed. The processes investigated here are koinéization and dialect/language shift, illustrated with examples from all over the world.

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Dialect Formation in Isolated Communities

Schreier

2017

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Bermudian English

Eberle

2021

Varieties of English Around the World

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Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the variety within the canon of other lesser-known varieties of English, and provides a first in-depth description of its variable morphosyntactic structure. Relying on sociolinguistic interview data and combining qualitative, typological and quantitative, variationist analyses of selected morphosyntactic features, it sheds light on structural affiliations of Bermudian English and argues for a two-way transfer pattern where Bermudian English plays an important role in the development of a number of other English(-based) varieties in the wider geographical region. Complementing existing studies which document such varieties, this book contributes to the body of research that describes the diversity of English(-based) varieties around the globe, filling a notable gap.

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Settler migration and settler varieties

Cited by 18 publications

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Dialect Formation in Isolated Communities

Dialect Formation in Isolated Communities

Varieties of English Around the World

Bermudian English

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