Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Buchstaller, Isabelle); 2. Plenaries; 3. Chapter 1. Analytic and synthetic: Typological change in varieties of European languages (by Haspelmath, Martin); 4. Chapter 2. A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables: Big issues with smaller samples in language variation (by Meyerhoff, Miriam); 5. Chapter 3. Dynamics, variation and the brain (by Schmidt, Jurgen Erich); 6. Individual chapters; 7. Chapter 4. Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician (by Sousa, Xulio); 8. Chapter 5. Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community: The acquisition of dialect and standard Dutch vocabulary (by Francot, R.J.); 9. Chapter 6. The unruly dialect variant [a]: The case of the opening of (e) in the traditional Torsby dialect (by Nilsson, Jenny); 10. Chapter 7. Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek (by Pappas, Panayiotis A.); 11. Chapter 8. Between local and standard varieties: Horizontal and vertical convergence and divergence of dialects in Southern Spain (by Villena-Ponsoda, Juan Andres); 12. Chapter 9. Syntactic doubling and variation: The case of Romani (by Tirard, Aurore); 13. Chapter 10. Variation in style: Register and lifestyle in Parisian French (by Adli, Aria); 14. Chapter 11. A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English (by Schutzler, Ole); 15. Chapter 12. Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century: An interplay of language-internal and contact-induced variation (by Beyer, Rahel); 16. Chapter 13. Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas: VerbaAlpina and the challenges of digital humanities (DH) (by Oberholzer, Susanne); 17. Chapter 14. Variation in Croatian: The verbal behaviour of rural speakers in an urban speech community (by Skevin, Ivana)
