Levelling, koineization and their implications for bidialectism

Tsiplakou, Stavroula; Papapavlou, Andreas; Pavlou, Pavlos; Katsoyannou, Marianna

doi:10.1075/silv.1.17tsi

In:Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005
Edited by Frans Hinskens
[Studies in Language Variation 1] 2006
► pp. 265–276

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Levelling, koineization and their implications for bidialectism

Published online: 30 November 2006

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