Tsiplakou / Karyolemou / Pavlou Language Variation – European perspectives II

Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-8926-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 5, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Language Variation

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), which was held at the University of Cyprus from June 17th–19th 2007. The variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives (from Generative Grammar, Word Grammar, Government Phonology, Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology to quantitative, Labovian and ethnographic approaches to variation and change, real and apparent time studies, phonetic analysis and metatheoretical papers on quantitative analysis), as well as the sheer number of linguistic varieties examined, attest both to the breadth and scope of the conference and to its status as a meeting-place for synchronic and diachronic linguistic description and theoretical exploration. One of the major themes running through the volume is the explicit concern with methodological refinement. Almost all the contributions address issues of methodology in various aspects of data collection and analysis, be they questionnaire surveys and interview data, spoken or written corpora, real- and apparent-time studies, dialect atlases and maps, statistical models or software. Alongside methodological issues, and especially with regard to the treatment of historical data, many of the papers in the volume explicitly address theoretical issues, for example the relative weighting of linguistic/systemic, cognitive and discourse factors in the exploration of language variation and change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsiplakou, Stavroula

Karyolemou, Marilena

Pavlou, Pavlos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Stavroula Tsiplakou, Marilena Karyolemou and Pavlos Pavlou
Clefts in Cypriot Greek
Yoryia Agouraki
Lexical change, discourse practices and the French press: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose?
Fabienne Baider
Arbitrary subjects of infinitival clauses in European and Brazilian Portuguese
Silvia Regina Cavalcante and Maria Eugênia L. Duarte
Modal verbs in long verb clusters: An innovation in Early Modern Dutch
Griet Coupé
Changing pronominal gender in Dutch: Transmission or diffusion?
Gunther De Vogelaer
Meaning variation and change in Greek morphology
Gaberell Drachman
Syntactic variation in German-English code-mixing
Eva Eppler
Sources of phonological variation in a large database for Dutch dialects
Frans Hinskens and Marc van Oostendorp
Broad vs. localistic dialectology, standard vs. dialect: The case of the Balkans and the drawing of linguistic boundaries
Brian D. Joseph
Intonational variation in Swiss German
Adrian Leemann
Morphological reduction in Aromanian
Maria Maglara
Greek dialect variation: A co-grammar approach
Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman
Using electronic corpora to study language variation: The problem of data sparsity
Hermann Moisl
Language attitudes and folk perceptions towards linguistic variation
Andreas Papapavlou and Andry Sophocleous
Salience and resilience in a set of Tyneside English shibboleths
Charley Rowe
New approaches to describing phonological change: The realisation of Middle High German î in the Alemannic Dialects of Southwest Germany
Christian Schwarz and Tobias Streck
Variation and grammaticisation: The emergence of an aspectual opposition
Rena Torres Cacoullos
Towards establishing the matrix language in Russian-Estonian code-switching: A corpus-based approach
Anastassia Zabrodskaja
Index