Variation & Convergence 
Subtitle: Studies in Social Dialectology (Soziolinguistikund Sprachkontakt/Sociolinguistics and Language Contact, Volume 4)
Contributors: Aldo Luzio (Editor)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: February 1, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9783110110456
Subjects: Dialectology; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; German; Language; General
First sentence: As the first linguistic sub-discipline concerned with synchronie variation, dialectology has always remained somewhat outside the strong linguistic mainstream that elaborated, from the beginning of the century up to the 60ies, the notions of 'system' and 'structure' as fundamental in linguistics and had little to say about lingustic diversity.