The Decay of a Language : The Case of a German Dialect in the Italian Alps - Silvia Dal Negro

The Decay of a Language

The Case of a German Dialect in the Italian Alps

By: Silvia Dal Negro

Paperback | 2 April 2004

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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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... Dal Negros exzellente Arbeit [hat] Bedeutung uber das enge Feld der italienischen Sprachinselforschung hinaus. (Stefan Rabanus, Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik)

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