Dialects Across Borders

Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002

Editors

Markku Filppula

| University of Joensuu

Juhani Klemola

| University of Tampere

Marjatta Palander

| University of Joensuu

Esa Penttilä

| University of Joensuu

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Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods used in data collection and analysis, as well as the emergence of new language-theoretical frameworks. The articles in this volume stem from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI, August 2002, Joensuu). The theme for this conference was “Dialects across borders”. The selection of contributions included in this volume demonstrates how various kinds of borders exert major influence on linguistic behaviour all over the world. The articles have been grouped according to whether they deal primarily with the linguistic outcomes of political and historical borders between states (Part I); various kinds of social and regional boundaries, including borders in a metaphorical sense, i.e. social barriers and mental or cognitive boundaries (Part II); and finally, boundaries between languages (Part III).

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 273] 2005. xii, 291 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.273

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii–xii
PART I: Dialects across political and historical borders	1
The construction of linguistic borders and the linguistic construction of borders Peter Auer	3–30
Static spatial relations in German and Romance: Towards a cognitive dialectology of posture verbs and locative adverbials Raphael Berthele	31–50
Ingressive particles across borders: Gender and discourse parallels across the North Atlantic Sandra Clarke and Gunnel Melchers	51–72
On the development of the consonant system in Mennonite Low German (Plautdietsch) Larissa Naiditch	73–86
English dialects in the British Isles in cross-variety perspective: A base-line for future research Sali A. Tagliamonte, Jennifer Smith and Helen Lawrence	87–117
PART II: Dialects across social and regional borders	119
Dialects across internal frontiers: Some cognitive boundaries Dennis R. Preston	121–155
On 'dative sickness' and other linguistic diseases in modern Icelandic Finnur Friðriksson	157–171
Can we find more variety in variation? Ronald K.S. Macaulay	173–184
Pronunciation of /ei/ in avant-garde Dutch: A cross-sex acoustic study Vincent J. van Heuven, Renée van Bezooijen and Loulou Edelman	185–210
A tale of two dialects: Relativization in Newcastle and Sheffield Joan C. Beal and Karen P. Corrigan	211–229
PART III: Dialects across language boundaries	231
Crossing grammatical borders: Tracing the path of contact-induced linguistic change Ruth King	233–251
The after-perfect in Irish English Patricia Ronan	253–270
Dialect history in black and white: Are two colors enough? J.L. Dillard	271–285
Index of languages and dialects	287
Subject index	289–291

“When languages are carried across borders of various kinds – social, regional, national and multinational – they undergo surprising accommodations. This book looks at some of the ways they adapt through case studies from Iceland, Finland, the Netherlands, Ireland, the British Isles, the European Common Market, and North America. Together, these insightful studies bear witness to the resilience and resourcefulness of our languages, and to the people who use them.”

Jack Chambers

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005055892