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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824041003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-44502-2

9786612445026

90-272-8926-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

TsiplakouStavroula

KaryolemouMarilena

PavlouPavlos Y. <1964->

Disciplina

417/.2094

Soggetti

Language and languages - Variation

Europe Languages Variation Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Leemann -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper explores different options for establishing the matrix language in Russian-Estonian code-switching. First, the notions of matrix and embedded language are introduced, followed by a short overview of the Russian-Estonian bilingual situation in Estonia. The Matrix Language Frame model (Myers-Scotton 1993, 1997, 2002) is introduced in the third part of the paper, where the corporal data are described as well. A possible application of the Matrix Language Frame model to the Russian-Estonian code-switching data is presented in part four. It is argued that in most cases the matrix language is clearly definable. However, there are instances which can be best described as "congruent lexicalisation" (Muysken 2000).