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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 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Conference on Language Variation in Europe Leipzig University
Otros Autores: Buchstaller, Isabelle (Editor ), Siebenhaar, Beat, 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; PhiladelphiA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Studies in language variation ; v. 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Language Variation
  • European Perspectives VI
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Scope of this volume
  • Overview over individual chapters
  • Plenaries
  • Individual chapters
  • References
  • Plenaries
  • Analytic and synthetic: Typological change in varieties of European languages
  • 1. The macro-comparative perspective: Language typology and language contact
  • 2. A short history of the analytic/synthetic terminology
  • 3. Analytic/synthetic as a synchronic notion
  • 4. Synthetic/analytic in diachrony
  • 5. Analyticizations occur very commonly in creoles
  • 5.1 Definite articles (APiCS 28, 9)
  • 5.2 Indefinite articles (APiCS 29, 10)
  • 5.3 Plural markers (APiCS 22, 23)
  • 5.4 Genitive markers (APiCS 38, 37)
  • 5.5 Personal pronouns in subject or possessor function (APiCS 62)
  • 5.6 Accusative markers (APiCS 57)
  • 5.7 Dative markers (APiCS 60, 61)
  • 5.8 Future tense markers (cf. APiCS 48)
  • 5.9 Past tense (or anterior) markers (APiCS 45)
  • 5.10 Imperfective aspect markers (APiCS 46, 47, 48)
  • 5.11 Causative construction
  • 6. Analyticization is generally favoured by language-contact situations
  • 7. Further examples of increased analyticity in European varieties
  • 7.1 Increased analyticity in Afrikaans
  • 7.2 Increased analyticity in Brazilian Portuguese
  • 7.3 Increased analyticity in Bulgarian
  • A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables: Big issues with smaller samples in language variation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Going big from small (samples)
  • 3. Language variation in context
  • 4. Addressing a big problem for variationist sociolinguistics
  • 5. The missing link
  • a sociolinguistic Higgs-Boson particle?
  • 6. Individuals and groups in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)
  • 7. Linguistic features in the Bequia corpus.
  • 8. Clustering speakers with respect to multiple linguistic features
  • 9. Where this takes us and where it leaves us
  • References
  • Dynamics, variation and the brain
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. First type: Sound change proceeds one word at a time
  • 2.1 Data and explanations
  • 2.2 ... and the brain?
  • 3. Second type: Sound change affects phonemes as a whole
  • 3.1 Data and explanations
  • 3.2 ... and the brain?
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Individual chapters
  • Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Galician dialects
  • 3. The data set
  • 4. Results and commentary
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community: The acquisition of dialect and standard Dutch vocabulary
  • 1. Introduction: Bidialectism in the Dutch province of Limburg
  • 2. Method
  • 2.1 Participants and procedure
  • 2.2 Measures
  • 2.3 Parental questionnaire, and overview of participants and results
  • 3. Results of the Limburgish Word Task
  • 4. Relationship between the extent of dialect used in the LWT and the acquisition of Dutch vocabulary
  • 5. Discussion and conclusion
  • References
  • The unruly dialect variant [a]: The case of the opening of (ɛ) in the traditional Torsby dialect
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
  • 3. Data
  • 4. Dialect change in Torsby
  • 5. The unruly [a]
  • 6. Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methodology and results
  • 3. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Between local and standard varieties: Horizontal and vertical convergence and divergence of dialects in Southern Spain
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Dialect convergence and divergence in Castilian Spanish
  • 2.1 Standard-dialect constellation.
  • 2.2 Varieties
  • 3. Linguistic constraints on cross-dialect variation
  • 3.1 Mergers and demergers
  • 3.2 Demerger of dental /????????/. A case of change from above
  • 3.3 Erosive changes
  • 3.4 Cross-dialect variation. Syllable-final /s/
  • 3.5 Near-Andalusian Castilian
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Syntactic doubling and variation: The case of Romani
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and method
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1 Linguistic factors
  • 3.2 Social factors
  • 4. Discussion
  • 4.1 The language contact hypothesis
  • 4.2 Socio-linguistic account of the variation
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Variation in style: Register and lifestyle in Parisian French
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data
  • 3. Subject-verb inversion in wh-questions and subject doubling in French
  • 4. Lifestyle and Bourdieu's sociocultural theory
  • 5. Operationalization of lifestyle
  • 5.1 Data reduction
  • 5.2 Factor analysis
  • 5.3 Cluster analysis
  • 6. The effect of lifestyle and other social variables on inversion and doubling
  • 6.1 Statistical results
  • 6.2 Discussion
  • References
  • A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Three semantic types of concessives
  • 3. Previous quantitative approaches and research questions
  • 4. Data and methodology
  • 5. Results
  • 6. Summary and conclusion
  • References
  • Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century: An interplay of language-internal and contact-induced variation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Corpus and study design
  • 3. Analysis
  • 3.1 Im Fall(e)(,) dass/falls 'in case (that)'
  • 3.2 Displacement of wann 'when' as conjunction
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas: VerbaAlpina and the challenges of digital humanities (DH)
  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. VerbaAlpina
  • the investigation of a multilingual region
  • 2.1 The Alpine region as an area under investigation
  • 2.2 A selective and analytical exploration of the Alpine region
  • 2.3 The transition from traditional to modern geolinguistics
  • 3. Methodology: How to combine different projects
  • 3.1 Different projects with different aims
  • 3.2 The structure of the map content
  • 3.3 The conversion of the transcription systems
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Variation in Croatian: The verbal behaviour of rural speakers in an urban speech community
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Hypothesis and objectives
  • 3. Method and problems of method
  • 4. The controlled process of self-representation as an act of identity
  • 5. Geographical markers as social markers
  • 5.1 The dynamics of rural speakers' identity construction
  • 5.2 Differences in verbal behaviour based on the hinterland
  • island/coast duality
  • 5.3 Gender and perceived accommodation
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
  • Index.