Full Description
Language Variation - European Perspectives V is based on papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), which was held in Trondheim, Norway from 26 to 28 June 2013. The 17 papers included in the book explore phonetic and phonological variation (Bitenc and Kenda-Jež; Hildenbrandt and Moosmüller; Jansen; Schaufuß; Schleef, Flynn and Ramsammy; Stuart-Smith, Rathcke, Sonderegger and Macdonald), morphology (Padilla-Moyano), syntax (Christensen and Juel Jensen; Jónsson, Brynjólfsdóttir and Sverrisdóttir), morphosyntax (Auger and Wycoff; Cerruti and Regis), language ideology, linguistic practices and language attitudes (Strand; Hall-Lew, Fairs and Lew; Dunmore and Smith-Christmas), code-switching (Amadou; Bucher) and language documentation (Kühl). The book is essential reading for scholars working on variation and change in European languages. The articles in the present volume investigate Romani, Turkish, Greek, Slovene, Picard, Swiss-German, Basque, Danish, Italian, English, Gaelic, Icelandic Sign Language, Faroe Danish and Norwegian.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Torgersen, Eivind); 2. A corpus-driven analysis of Romani in contact with Turkish and Greek (by Adamou, Evangelia); 3. How many ands in Picard? (by Auger, Julie); 4. Language variation in Slovene: A case study of two geographically mobile speakers (by Bitenc, Maja); 5. Code-switching in SMS communication: Formal and functional aspects in the Swiss-German sms4science corpus (by Bucher, Claudia); 6. The interplay between dialect and standard: Evidence from Italo-Romance (by Cerruti, Massimo); 7. Word order variation and foregrounding of complement clauses: Exploring the meaning of sentence adverbials as signals of word order (by Christensen, Tanya Karoli); 8. Voicing the 'other': Code-switching in discourses of Gaelic language ideologies (by Dunmore, Stuart); 9. Tourists' attitudes towards linguistic variation in Scotland (by Hall-Lew, Lauren); 10. The pronunciation of -ig in three varieties of Austria (by Hildenbrandt, Tina); 11. A century of change in prevocalic (r) in Carlisle English: Internal constraints in a levelling process (by Jansen, Sandra); 12. Variation in wh-questions in Icelandic Sign Language (by Jonsson, Johannes Gisli); 13. Faroe Danish: An unknown variety (by Kuhl, Karoline); 14. A new view of Basque through eighteenth-century correspondence (by Padilla-Moyano, Manuel); 15. Standard-dialect variation and its functionalization (by Schaufuss, Anja); 16. Production and perception of (ing) in Manchester English (by Schleef, Erik); 17. Pro-dialect practices and linguistic commodification in rural Valdres, Norway (by Strand, Thea R.); 18. A real-time study of plosives in Glaswegian using an automatic measurement algorithm: Change or age-grading? (by Stuart-Smith, Jane); 19. Index
