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Title

Language variation--European perspectives II : selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLAVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007 / edited by Stavroula Tsiplakou, Marilena Karyolemou, Pavlos Pavlou.

Author

International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (4th : 2007 : Nicosia, Cyprus)

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Tsiplakou, Stavroula
• Karyolemou, Marilena.
• Pavlou, Pavlos Y., 1964-

Description

342 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in language variation, 1872-9592 ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Studies in language variation ; v. 5.

Subject

• Language and languages > Variation > Congresses
• Europe > Variation > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Stavroula Tsiplakou, Marilena Karyolemou & Pavlos Pavlou -- Clefts in Cypriot Greek / Yoryia Agouraki -- Lexical change, discourse practices and the French press: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? / Fabienne Baider -- Arbitrary subjects of infinitival clauses in European and Brazilian Portuguese / Silvia Regina Cavalcante & Maria Eugênia L. Duarte -- Modal verbs in long verb clusters: An innovation in Early Modern Dutch / Griet Coupé -- Changing pronominal gender in Dutch: Transmission or diffusion? / Gunther De Vogelaer -- Meaning variation and change in Greek morphology / Gaberell Drachman -- Syntactic variation in German-English code-mixing / Eva Eppler -- Sources of phonological variation in a large database for Dutch dialects / Frans Hinskens & Marc van Oostendorp -- Broad vs. localistic dialectology, standard vs. dialect: The case of the Balkans and the drawing of linguistic boundaries / Brian D. Joseph -- Intonational variation in Swiss German / Adrian Leeman -- Morphological reduction in Aromanian / Maria Maglara -- Greek dialect variation: a co-grammar approach / Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman -- Using electronic corpora to study language variation: the problem of data sparsity / Hermann Moisl -- Language attitudes and folk perceptions towards linguistic variation / Andreas Papapavlou & Andry Sophocleous -- Salience and resilience in a set of Tyneside English shibboleths / Charley Rowe-- New approaches to describing phonological change: The realisation of Middle High German î in the Alemannic Dialects of Southwest Germany / Christian Schwarz & Tobias Streck -- Variation and grammaticisation: The emergence of an aspectual opposition / Rena Torres-Cacoullos -- Towards establishing the matrix language in Russian-Estonian code-switching: A corpus-based approach / Anastassia Zabrodskaja -- Language variation--European perspectives II.

ISBN

9789027234858 (hb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009015465

OCLC

559829894

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library