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Newfoundland and Labrador English
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ISBN: 074867151X 1282620118 9786612620119 0748631410 9780748631414 9780748671519 0748626166 9780748626168 0748626174 9780748626175 Year: 2010 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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This book is the first full-length volume to offer a comprehensive introduction to the English spoken in Britain's oldest overseas colony, and, since 1949, Canada's youngest province. Within North America, Newfoundland and Labrador English is a highly distinctive speech variety. It is known for its generally conservative nature, having retained close ties with its primary linguistic roots, the traditional speech of southwestern England and southern Ireland. It is also characterised by a high degree of regional and social variation. Over the past half century, the region has experienced substan

Focus on Canada
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ISBN: 1283358506 9786613358509 9027276811 9027248699 1556194420 9789027276810 9781556194429 9789027248695 9781283358507 6613358509 Year: 1993 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.

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Although varieties of North American English have come in for a good deal of linguistic scrutiny in recent years, the vast majority of published works have dealt with American rather than Canadian English. This volume constitutes a welcome addition to our linguistic knowledge of English-speaking Canada. While the focus of the volume is primarily synchronic, several of the dozen papers it contains offer a diachronic perspective on Canadian English.


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North-west River (Sheshatshit) Montagnais: a grammatical sketch
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Publisher: Ottawa National Museums of Canada

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Newfoundland and Labrador English
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ISBN: 9780748631414 Year: 2010 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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A Handbook of Varieties of English
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ISBN: 9783110197181 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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