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Language Variation - European Perspectives VI
Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015
Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which was held in Leipzig in 2015. The volume includes plenaries by Miriam Meyerhoff and Steffen Klaere (“The large and the small of it: Big issues with smaller samples in the study of language variation”), Martin Haspelmath and Susanne Maria Michaelis (“Analytic and synthetic: Typological change in varieties of European languages”) and Jürgen Erich Schmidt (“Dynamics, variation and the brain“). In addition, the editors have selected 11 papers which exemplify the breadth of research on European languages. The contributions to this volume encompass languages as varied as Swedish, Greek, Galician, Dutch, German, Swedish, English (including English-lexified contact varieties), French, Spanish, Croatian, Luxembourgish and Romani. The variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives and particularly the combination of different methods attests to the scope of research currently being conducted on language variation and change in European languages.
[Studies in Language Variation, 19] 2017. xvi, 237 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 July 2017
Published online on 14 July 2017
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Table of Contents
- IntroductionIsabelle Buchstaller and Beat Siebenhaar | pp. viii–xvi
- Plenaries
- Analytic and synthetic: Typological change in varieties of European languagesMartin Haspelmath and Susanne Maria Michaelis | pp. 3–22
- A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables: Big issues with smaller samples in language variationMiriam Meyerhoff and Steffen Klaere | pp. 23–46
- Dynamics, variation and the brainJürgen Erich Schmidt | pp. 47–68
- Individual chapters
- Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in GalicianXulio Sousa | pp. 71–84
- Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community: The acquisition of dialect and standard Dutch vocabularyR. J. Francot, K. Van den Heuij, E. Blom, W. Heeringa and L. Cornips | pp. 85–98
- The unruly dialect variant [a]: The case of the opening of (ɛ) in the traditional Torsby dialectJenny Nilsson and Lena Wenner | pp. 99–112
- Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern GreekPanayiotis A. Pappas | pp. 113–124
- Between local and standard varieties: Horizontal and vertical convergence and divergence of dialects in Southern SpainJuan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda and Matilde Vida-Castro | pp. 125–140
- Syntactic doubling and variation: The case of RomaniAurore Tirard | pp. 141–156
- Variation in style: Register and lifestyle in Parisian FrenchAria Adli | pp. 157–172
- A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of EnglishOle Schützler | pp. 173–184
- Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century: An interplay of language-internal and contact-induced variationRahel Beyer | pp. 185–198
- Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas: VerbaAlpina and the challenges of digital humanities (DH)Susanne Oberholzer and Markus Kunzmann | pp. 199–214
- Variation in Croatian: The verbal behaviour of rural speakers in an urban speech communityIvana Škevin | pp. 215–232
- Index
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2021. Chapter 6. Exploring an approach for modelling lectal coherence. In Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII [Studies in Language Variation, 25], ► pp. 136 ff.
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