TY  - BOOK
AU  - Silvia Dal Negro
PY  - 2021
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Decay of a Language
T2  - The Case of a German Dialect in the Italian Alps
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096864
N2  - 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.
KW  - Linguistics, Walser dialects, Community of Formazza, Pomattertitsch, Deconstruction of language, Valle Formazza, Mundart, Deutsch, Sprachverfall, Verb morphology, Language minorities /Italy
LA  - English
ER  -