The handbook of language variation and change [[electronic resource] /] / edited by J.K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, and Natalie Schilling-Estes |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (822 p.) |
Disciplina |
417.7
417/.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ChambersJ. K
TrudgillPeter Schilling-EstesNatalie |
Collana | Blackwell handbooks in linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Linguistic change Sociolinguistics |
ISBN |
9786610284467
0-470-75659-4 1-280-28446-3 1-78034-188-1 1-4051-2315-X 1-282-34336-X 9786612343360 1-4051-6614-2 0-470-75650-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology; Field Methods: Introduction; Evaluation: Introduction; Linguistic Structure: Introduction; Time: Introduction; Social Differentiation: Introduction; Domains: Introduction; Contact: Introduction; Language and Societies: Introduction; Index |
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Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The handbook of language variation and change / / edited by J.K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, and Natalie Schilling-Estes |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (822 p.) |
Disciplina |
417.7
417/.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ChambersJ. K
TrudgillPeter Schilling-EstesNatalie |
Collana | Blackwell handbooks in linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Linguistic change Sociolinguistics |
ISBN |
9786610284467
0-470-75659-4 1-280-28446-3 1-78034-188-1 1-4051-2315-X 1-282-34336-X 9786612343360 1-4051-6614-2 0-470-75650-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology; Field Methods: Introduction; Evaluation: Introduction; Linguistic Structure: Introduction; Time: Introduction; Social Differentiation: Introduction; Domains: Introduction; Contact: Introduction; Language and Societies: Introduction; Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Language variation and change |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910144119103321 |
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language complexity as an evolving variable [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil, and Peter Trudgill |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
Disciplina | 401.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SampsonGeoffrey <1944->
GilDavid TrudgillPeter |
Collana |
Oxford linguistics
Studies in the evolution of language |
Soggetto topico | Complexity (Linguistics) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-23505-2
9786612235054 0-19-156766-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Interlinear glosses; The contributors; 1. A linguistic axiom challenged; 2. How much grammar does it take to sail a boat?; 3. On the evolution of complexity: sometimes less is more in East and mainland Southeast Asia; 4. Testing the assumption of complexity invariance: the case of Elfdalian and Swedish; 5. Between simplification and complexification: non-standard varieties of English around the world; 6. Implicational hierarchies and grammatical complexity; 7. Sociolinguistic typology and complexification; 8. Linguistic complexity: a comprehensive definition and survey
9. Complexity in core argument marking and population size10. Oh n(omitted)! : a bewilderingly multifunctional Saramaccan word teaches us how a creole language develops complexity; 11. Orality versus literacy as a dimension of complexity; 12. Individual differences in processing complex grammatical structures; 13. Origin and maintenance of clausal embedding complexity; 14. Layering of grammar: vestiges of protosyntax in present-day languages; 15. An interview with Dan Everett; 16. Universals in language or cognition? Evidence from English language acquisition and from Pirahã 17. ''Overall complexity'': a wild goose chase?18. An efficiency theory of complexity and related phenomena; 19. Envoi: The editors; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455390403321 |
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language complexity as an evolving variable [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil, and Peter Trudgill |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
Disciplina | 401.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SampsonGeoffrey <1944->
GilDavid TrudgillPeter |
Collana |
Oxford linguistics
Studies in the evolution of language |
Soggetto topico | Complexity (Linguistics) |
ISBN |
1-383-04516-X
1-282-23505-2 9786612235054 0-19-156766-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Interlinear glosses; The contributors; 1. A linguistic axiom challenged; 2. How much grammar does it take to sail a boat?; 3. On the evolution of complexity: sometimes less is more in East and mainland Southeast Asia; 4. Testing the assumption of complexity invariance: the case of Elfdalian and Swedish; 5. Between simplification and complexification: non-standard varieties of English around the world; 6. Implicational hierarchies and grammatical complexity; 7. Sociolinguistic typology and complexification; 8. Linguistic complexity: a comprehensive definition and survey
9. Complexity in core argument marking and population size10. Oh n(omitted)! : a bewilderingly multifunctional Saramaccan word teaches us how a creole language develops complexity; 11. Orality versus literacy as a dimension of complexity; 12. Individual differences in processing complex grammatical structures; 13. Origin and maintenance of clausal embedding complexity; 14. Layering of grammar: vestiges of protosyntax in present-day languages; 15. An interview with Dan Everett; 16. Universals in language or cognition? Evidence from English language acquisition and from Pirahã 17. ''Overall complexity'': a wild goose chase?18. An efficiency theory of complexity and related phenomena; 19. Envoi: The editors; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778010403321 |
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language complexity as an evolving variable [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil, and Peter Trudgill |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
Disciplina | 401.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SampsonGeoffrey <1944->
GilDavid TrudgillPeter |
Collana |
Oxford linguistics
Studies in the evolution of language |
Soggetto topico | Complexity (Linguistics) |
ISBN |
1-383-04516-X
1-282-23505-2 9786612235054 0-19-156766-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Interlinear glosses; The contributors; 1. A linguistic axiom challenged; 2. How much grammar does it take to sail a boat?; 3. On the evolution of complexity: sometimes less is more in East and mainland Southeast Asia; 4. Testing the assumption of complexity invariance: the case of Elfdalian and Swedish; 5. Between simplification and complexification: non-standard varieties of English around the world; 6. Implicational hierarchies and grammatical complexity; 7. Sociolinguistic typology and complexification; 8. Linguistic complexity: a comprehensive definition and survey
9. Complexity in core argument marking and population size10. Oh n(omitted)! : a bewilderingly multifunctional Saramaccan word teaches us how a creole language develops complexity; 11. Orality versus literacy as a dimension of complexity; 12. Individual differences in processing complex grammatical structures; 13. Origin and maintenance of clausal embedding complexity; 14. Layering of grammar: vestiges of protosyntax in present-day languages; 15. An interview with Dan Everett; 16. Universals in language or cognition? Evidence from English language acquisition and from Pirahã 17. ''Overall complexity'': a wild goose chase?18. An efficiency theory of complexity and related phenomena; 19. Envoi: The editors; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808476203321 |
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Social dialectology : in honour of Peter Trudgill / / edited by David Britain, Jenny Cheshire |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 pages) |
Disciplina | 417/.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
TrudgillPeter
BritainDavid CheshireJenny <1946-> |
Collana | Impact, studies in language and society |
Soggetto topico |
Dialectology
Sociolinguistics |
ISBN |
1-282-16120-2
9786612161209 90-272-9647-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Social Dialectology -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Photo's Peter Trudgill -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note -- Pursuing the cascade model -- The mechanism of the cascade model -- Notes -- References -- Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features in a local community -- Introduction -- The normalisation process in Murcian Spanish -- Objectives -- Approaches to the diffusion of standard forms in Murcian Spanish -- A real-time study based on radio recordings -- An apparent-time study based on gravity models and quantitative sociolinguistics -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Systemic accommodation -- Notes -- References -- New dialect formation -- Population and dialect mixture -- The research -- The pronominal suffix -kum -- The 2nd person plural clitics in the input dialects -- Explanation: Markedness and simplification -- Area 502 -- References -- Variation and sound change in New Zealand English -- Introduction -- Individual internal variation in the ONZE data -- Individual internal variation in the near/square merger in NZE -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- An East Anglian in the South Atlantic? -- Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean -- The status of 3rd person singular -s in English around the world -- 3rd person singular zero in Tristan da Cunha English (TdCE) -- Uncounted forms and analysis -- Inter-individual variation -- External factors -- Internal constraints -- Discussion -- Origins: Independent development or input legacy? -- Why did TdCE adopt non-marking? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Sociolinguistics of immigration -- The Language Gap -- The Literacy Gap -- The Integration Gap -- Inverse Assimilation -- Social Typology -- Toward a sociolinguistics of immigration -- References -- Why fuude is not `food' and tschëgge is not `check'.
The actuation of language change -- The linguistic situation in Switzerland -- Lexical borrowing from English in the Swiss German dialects -- The youth movement in Switzerland between 1968 and 1984 -- Patroncini's lexicon of the Gassensprache (`the language of the streets') -- The `Gassensprache' as an anti-language -- Weak links and central network members: A complex of social networks -- Theoretical implications -- Notes -- References -- Parallel development and alternative restructuring -- Introduction -- Leveling to weren't in apparent time: A comparative perspective -- Ocracoke -- Harkers Island -- Smith Island -- Mainland Hyde County -- The British Fens -- Explaining weren't intensification -- Notes -- References -- Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change -- Introduction -- The "classic'' variationist model -- Dialect contact frameworks -- Language ideology -- Fitting the pieces together -- Notes -- References -- Changing mental maps and morphology -- Introduction: Historical background -- Linguistic consequences (the problem) -- Variation in a Hungarian-American idiolect -- Earlier observations -- A cognitive linguist's view -- The study -- Subjects -- Methods -- Hypotheses -- Findings -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology -- Introduction -- Fens outliers -- The restructuring of the past be system -- The diphthong in the mouth lexical set -- `Canadian Raising' in the price lexical set -- Variation (or lack of it) in the vowel of the bath lexical set -- Interdialectal variants of the strut lexical set -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- When is a sound change? -- Introduction -- (th) fronting in Derby -- Data analysis -- Findings -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English. Introduction: Geographical diffusion vs. levelling -- British sociolinguistic dialectology and the concept of `dialect levelling' -- Regional dialect levelling in English vowels -- Dialect levelling in English vowels: Mutual accommodation or geographical diffusion? -- Consonants: Torchbearers of geographical diffusion? -- Regional dialect levelling and regional identities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Social dimensions of syntactic variation -- Introduction -- Lone when clauses -- Explicatory lone when clauses -- Pivotal lone when clauses -- Social variation -- Narrative analysis -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Transcription conventions -- References -- Language variation in Greece -- Introduction -- Greek diglossia -- Regional variation -- Social variation -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- A Norwegian adult language game, anti-language or secret code -- Mandal, language games and Smoi -- The origin, development and spread of Smoi -- Special Mandal dialect features reflected in Smoi -- The coining of Smoi words -- Smoi's position in Mandal's cultural history -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Children and linguistic normativity -- Evaluative vocabulary -- Bases of evaluation -- Intelligibility -- Institutionalised norms -- Effects of literacy -- Personal experience -- Future perspectives -- Notes -- References -- The virtue of the vernacular -- Notes -- References -- The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties -- Introduction -- The Norwegian language(s) -- The Nynorsk standard language -- The eastern dialects -- The optionality issue -- Vowels in stressed syllables -- Diphthongs -- Front rounded vowels -- Balance -- Consonants -- Single and double consonant -- Initial xw- clusters -- Loss of final r -- Verbal inflection -- The present tense of strong verbs -- Perfect participle of strong verbs. Nominal inflection -- Pronouns -- First person singular -- Second person plural -- Third person -- Vocabulary -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Peter Trudgill's publications -- Index -- The series IMPACT: STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821320903321 |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Social dialectology : in honour of Peter Trudgill |
Autore | Britain David; Cheshire, Jenny |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : John Benjamins Pub, 2003 |
Disciplina | 417/.2 |
Collana | Impact, studies in language and society Social dialectology |
Soggetto topico |
Dialectology
Sociolinguistics Philology & Linguistics Languages & Literatures |
ISBN |
1-282-16120-2
9786612161209 90-272-9647-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453677303321 |
Britain David; Cheshire, Jenny | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : John Benjamins Pub, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Social dialectology : in honour of Peter Trudgill |
Autore | Britain David; Cheshire, Jenny |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : John Benjamins Pub, 2003 |
Disciplina | 417/.2 |
Collana | Impact, studies in language and society Social dialectology |
Soggetto topico |
Dialectology
Sociolinguistics Philology & Linguistics Languages & Literatures |
ISBN |
1-282-16120-2
9786612161209 90-272-9647-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782306603321 |
Britain David; Cheshire, Jenny | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : John Benjamins Pub, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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