Italoamericano

Italiano e inglese in contatto negli USA. Analisi diacronica variazionale e migrazionale
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The Italian migration to the United States spurred a particularly dynamic and multifarious language contact between Italian varieties and American English, which is the main object of study of this monograph. The Italian-American linguistic contact is characterized by a duration of more than 400 years, a wide geographic diffusion and a variable intensity. The author undertakes a diachronic variational analysis of its dynamics and results and provides a methodological innovation for contact studies. Foreword by Tullio De Mauro.

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  • ISBN13 9783110300352
  • Released 2013
  • Publisher De Gruyter
  • Format Elektronisk medie
  • Edition 1
  • Language Italian