Intermediate Language Varieties : Koinai and Regional Standards in Europe.

Intro -- Intermediate Language Varieties -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- 1. Koinai and regional standard varieties in Europe: An introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The language space between base dialects and standard -- 3. The emergence of new standard varieties -- 4. The dynamics of koineisation -- 5. Vertical continua and the coherence of intermediate forms -- 6. The papers in this volume -- 6.1 From North to South -- 6.2 An overall view -- References -- 2. Regional varieties in Norway revisited -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Restructuring of the Norwegian society -- 2.2 Linguistic diversity in Norway -- 2.3 Dialect developments in contemporary Norway -- 3. Regional varieties -- 3.1 Regional varieties in Scandinavia -- 3.2 Regional varieties in Norway -- 3.3 Deconstruction of lects -- 3.4 Regional varieties revisited -- 4. Concluding remarks -- 4.1 A fiction in the minds of linguists? -- 4.2 A reality in the lives of people? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3. Surviving Limburg and Hollandic dialect features and what they have in common -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Studies on recent developments in the Dutch dialect landscape -- 3. Ripuarian and East-Limburg dialects -- 4. Hollandic dialects of Noord-Holland -- 5. Sizing up -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4. German regiolects and socio-cultural identity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On the historical background of German -- 3. Recent large-scale investigations of vertical variation spaces in Germany -- 4. Results -- 5. Extralinguistic relevance -- 6. Conclusion: On the stability of the intermediate regiolects -- References -- 5. Reduction and persistence of phonological dialect features in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research on dialect reduction in German -- 3. Focus: Southwest Germany -- 4. Method and corpus.

5. Results: The selection path from rural dialects to regional standards -- 5.1 Selection of phonological dialect features within the dialect context -- 5.2 Selection of phonological dialect features during transition from dialect to regional standard -- 6. Persistent dialect features and the construction of their social salience -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- 6. From dialect to standard: Facilitating and constraining factors. On some uses of the Italian negative particle 'mica' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialect and standard in Italo-Romance: Some general issues -- 3. The selection of features in Italo-Romance: A case study -- 3.1 Standard and sub-standard uses of the Italian negative particle 'mica' -- 3.2 Contact with Italo-Romance dialects -- 3.3 Salience -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- 7. Variation, identity and indexicality in southern Spanish: On the emergence of a new variety in urban Andalusia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Phonology -- 2.1.1 Onsets -- 2.1.2 Codas -- 2.2 Grammar -- 2.3 Discourse -- 3. The intermediate variety -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Coherence -- 4. Hypotheses -- 5. Data and results -- 5.1 Variables -- 5.2 Coherence: To what extent is this a new variety? -- 5.3 Speakers -- 5.3.1 Education -- 5.3.2 Gender -- 5.3.3 Interaction -- 5.3.4 Multivariate analysis -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- 8. The role of interdialectal forms in the formation of 'koinai': Sociolinguistic aspects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological aspects: The sample -- 3. Structural implications of the lax/tense alternation -- 4. Theoretical aspects: Constraining factors -- 4.1 Internal variables -- 4.1.1 Stress -- 4.1.2 Word position -- 4.1.3 Word frequency -- 4.2 External variables -- 4.3 Attitudes -- 4.4 Individual analysis -- 5. Conclusions -- References.

9. Survival of the 'oddest'? Levelling, shibboleths, reallocation and the construction of intermediate varieties -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Diglossia, levelling and koineisation in Cypriot Greek -- 1.2 A mixed variety? -- 2. Keep clefting -- 2.1 Results from a quantitative survey -- 3. Past Perfect is the new Past -- 4. Phonology and its indexicalities -- 4.1 A local phonetic shibboleth -- 4.2 A local variant going pancypriot -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 10. Language variation and maintenance in Cypriot Romeika: A case of non-koineisation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The community -- 3. Utilising the social network approach for the investigation of Cypriot Romeika -- 3.1 The social network approach -- 3.2 Method -- 4. Preservation of "archaic" phenomena -- 4.1 Phenomena attested in every network -- 4.1.1 Dorsalisation of fricatives -- 4.1.2 Voiced consonants in continuant + stop clusters -- 4.2 Phenomena attested in some of the geographical networks -- 4.2.1 Fricative + /'j'/ clusters -- 4.2.2 Simple past formation of verbs 'enter' and 'go out' -- 5. Fossilisation and non-koineisation of Cypriot Romeika -- 5.1 Non-koineisation and domains of language use -- 5.2 Romeika as a marker of identity -- 5.3 Fossilization of Cypriot Romeika and non-koineisation -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Index.

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