Ryan Durgasingh

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ryan Durgasingh is involved.

Title

Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards

Edited by Philipp Meer and Ryan Durgasingh

This edited collection engages with the contentious debate surrounding standard varieties and their distribution. For the past three decades, these arguments have coalesced around two camps: pluricentricity (the idea that standard varieties are intimately associated with nation states, with more… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 32] 2025. viii, 197 pp.

Articles

Durgasingh, Ryan and Philipp Meer 2025 Chapter 9. Pluricentricity AND pluriareality: Building the case for complementarity Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, Meer, Philipp and Ryan Durgasingh (eds.), pp. 187–195 | Chapter

Moving beyond the contention which has characterized the pluricentricity and pluriareality debate, this summative chapter draws together the argumentative strands in the chapters in this volume to build the case for their complementarity. We show the various ways in which terminological… read more

Meer, Philipp and Ryan Durgasingh 2025 Chapter 1. Modeling variation: Pluricentricity and pluriareality — The debate surrounding both models, and potentials for their complementarity Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, Meer, Philipp and Ryan Durgasingh (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter

The question of how to conceptualize variation in languages with more than one standard variety, such as English, Dutch, or German, has been a central one to variation linguistics. Variation in these languages is sometimes modeled according to two opposed approaches: pluricentricity and… read more