Language Maintenance and Language Death: The Decline of Texas Alsatian

(Book #6 in the Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Series)

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This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with minimal change for six generations. Texas Alsatian has maintained lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic features which differentiate it from the prevalent...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9027202885

ISBN13:9789027202888

Release Date:February 2012

Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company

Length:253 Pages

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Language Maintenance and Language Death: The Decline of Texas Alsatian

(Book #6 in the Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Series)

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