Language Variation - European Perspectives VI

Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015

Editors

Isabelle Buchstaller

| University of Leipzig

Beat Siebenhaar

| University of Leipzig

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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.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.19

Table of Contents

Introduction Isabelle Buchstaller and Beat Siebenhaar	viii–xvi
Plenaries
Analytic and synthetic: Typological change in varieties of European languages Martin Haspelmath and Susanne Maria Michaelis	3–22
A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables: Big issues with smaller samples in language variation Miriam Meyerhoff and Steffen Klaere	23–46
Dynamics, variation and the brain Jürgen Erich Schmidt	47–68
Individual chapters
Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician Xulio Sousa	71–84
Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community: The acquisition of dialect and standard Dutch vocabulary R.J. Francot, Kirsten van den Heuij, Elma Blom, Wilbert Heeringa and Leonie Cornips	85–98
The unruly dialect variant [a]: The case of the opening of (ɛ) in the traditional Torsby dialect Jenny Nilsson and Lena Wenner	99–112
Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek Panayiotis A. Pappas	113–124
Between local and standard varieties: Horizontal and vertical convergence and divergence of dialects in Southern Spain Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda and Matilde Vida-Castro	125–140
Syntactic doubling and variation: The case of Romani Aurore Tirard	141–156
Variation in style: Register and lifestyle in Parisian French Aria Adli	157–172
A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English Ole Schützler	173–184
Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century: An interplay of language-internal and contact-induced variation Rahel Beyer	185–198
Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas: VerbaAlpina and the challenges of digital humanities (DH) Susanne Oberholzer and Markus Kunzmann	199–214
Variation in Croatian: The verbal behaviour of rural speakers in an urban speech community Ivana Škevin	215–232
Index	233–237

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFB – Sociolinguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009050 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017007924 | Marc record