Where did it all start?: Dialect contact, the 'founder principle' and the so-called 〈-own〉 split in New Zealand english

Transactions of the Philological Society

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-28

  Britain, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogy; Dialect contact; English dialects; Language change; Mergers; New Zealand english; Post colonial dialects; Socio historical linguistics; Splits

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248746537     PISSN: 00791636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-968x.00072     Document Type: Article

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