New-Dialect Formation: The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes

Peter Trudgill

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July, 2006
Paper, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-1877-4
Edinburgh University Press
$36.00

This book presents a controversial theory about the formation of new colonial dialects, examining Latin American Spanish, Canadian French, and North American English, with a special focus on Australian, South African, and New Zealand English.

About the Author

Peter Trudgill is professor of English Linguistics at Agder University College, Norway.

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