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Towards a new standard : theoretical and empirical studies on the restandardization of Italian /

In many European languages the National Standard Variety is converging with spoken, informal, and socially marked varieties. In Italian this process is giving rise to a new standard variety called Neo-standard Italian, which partly consists of regional features. This book contributes to current rese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cerruti, Massimo (Editor ), Crocco, Claudia (Editor ), Marzo, Stefania (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Walter de Gruyter Inc., [2017]
Colección:Language and social life (Mouton de Gruyter) ; v. 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: on the development of a new standard norm in Italian
  • Part I: Restandardization tendencies: What is changing in Italian today? phenomena of restandardization in syntax and morphology: an overview
  • Changes from below, changes from above: relative constructions in contemporary Italian
  • Everyone has an accent. standard Italian and regional pronunciation
  • Evaluating regional variation in Italian: towards a change in standard language ideology?
  • Part II: Regional standards: How standard regional Italian set in: the case of standard Piedmontese Italian
  • Italian in Bozen/Bolzano: the formation of a 'new dialect'
  • Tuscan between standard and vernacular: a sociophonetic perspective
  • Contact between Italian and dialect in Sicily: the case of phrasal verb constructions
  • Part III: Crossing the borders: Anglicisms in Italian. typologies of language contact phenomena with particular reference to word-formation processes
  • English loans in written Italian: a regional perspective
  • Italian in Switzerland: the dynamics of pluricentrism
  • Epilogue: the neo-standard of Italy and elsewhere in Europe
  • Index.