Language variation--European perspectives II
Subtitle: selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLAVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007
By: edited by Stavroula Tsiplakou, Marilena Karyolemou, Pavlos Pavlou.
Contributors: Tsiplakou, Stavroula.; Karyolemou, Marilena.; Pavlou, Pavlos Y., 1964-
Series: Studies in language variation -- v. 5
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9789027234858
Subjects: Language and languages -- Variation -- Congresses; Europe -- Languages -- Variation -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Stavroula Tsiplakou, Marilena Karyolemou & Pavlos Pavlou; title: Clefts in Cypriot Greek / Yoryia Agouraki; title: Lexical change, discourse practices and the French press: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? / Fabienne Baider; title: Arbitrary subjects of infinitival clauses in European and Brazilian Portuguese / Silvia Regina Cavalcante & Maria Eugênia L. Duarte; title: Modal verbs in long verb clusters: An innovation in Early Modern Dutch / Griet Coupé; title: Changing pronominal gender in Dutch: Transmission or diffusion? / Gunther De Vogelaer; title: Meaning variation and change in Greek morphology / Gaberell Drachman; title: Syntactic variation in German-English code-mixing / Eva Eppler; title: Sources of phonological variation in a large database for Dutch dialects / Frans Hinskens & Marc van Oostendorp; title: Broad vs. localistic dialectology, standard vs. dialect: The case of the Balkans and the drawing of linguistic boundaries / Brian D. Joseph; title: Intonational variation in Swiss German / Adrian Leeman; title: Morphological reduction in Aromanian / Maria Maglara; title: Greek dialect variation: a co-grammar approach / Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman; title: Using electronic corpora to study language variation: the problem of data sparsity / Hermann Moisl; title: Language attitudes and folk perceptions towards linguistic variation / Andreas Papapavlou & Andry Sophocleous; title: Salience and resilience in a set of Tyneside English shibboleths / Charley Rowe; title: New approaches to describing phonological change: The realisation of Middle High German î in the Alemannic Dialects of Southwest Germany / Christian Schwarz & Tobias Streck; title: Variation and grammaticisation: The emergence of an aspectual opposition / Rena Torres-Cacoullos; title: Towards establishing the matrix language in Russian-Estonian code-switching: A corpus-based approach / Anastassia Zabrodskaja; title: Language variation; title: European perspectives II.