North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it.North American Icelandic is the only book about the nature and development of this variety of Icelandic. It details the social and linguistic constraints of one specific feature of North American Icelandic phonology undergoing change, namely Flámæli, which is the merger of two sets of front vowels. Although Flámæli was once a part of traditional Icelandic, it was considered too confusing and was systematically eradicated from the language. But in North America, Flámæli use spread unchecked, allowing the rare opportunity of viewing the evolution of a dialect from its birth to its impending demise.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 439.6097
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- ISBN
- 0887556949 9780887553493
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- PD2409
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- A75 2006eb
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- 1 electronic text (165 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600884 (OCoLC)696033316 (CaOOCEL)412971
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Introduction 12
- Chapter 1: Historical Background 22
- Chapter 2: The Life Cycle of North American Icelandic 44
- Chapter 3: The North American Icelandic Lexicon 62
- Chapter 4: Collecting the Data 82
- Chapter 5: The Grammar of North American Icelandic 96
- Chapter 6: Perceived Vowel Mergers: Identification of the Variables 122
- Chapter 7: The Spread of Flámæli in North American Icelandic 142
- Bibliography 162
