Dialects Across Borders
Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002
Editors
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction | pp. vii–xii
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PART I: Dialects across political and historical borders
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The construction of linguistic borders and the linguistic construction of bordersPeter Auer | pp. 3–30
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Static spatial relations in German and Romance: Towards a cognitive dialectology of posture verbs and locative adverbialsRaphael Berthele | pp. 31–50
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Ingressive particles across borders: Gender and discourse parallels across the North AtlanticSandra Clarke and Gunnel Melchers | pp. 51–72
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On the development of the consonant system in Mennonite Low German (Plautdietsch)Larissa Naiditch | pp. 73–86
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English dialects in the British Isles in cross-variety perspective: A base-line for future researchSali A. Tagliamonte, Jennifer Smith and Helen Lawrence | pp. 87–117
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PART II: Dialects across social and regional borders
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Dialects across internal frontiers: Some cognitive boundariesDennis R. Preston | pp. 121–155
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On 'dative sickness' and other linguistic diseases in modern IcelandicFinnur Friðriksson | pp. 157–171
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Can we find more variety in variation?Ronald K.S. Macaulay | pp. 173–184
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Pronunciation of /ei/ in avant-garde Dutch: A cross-sex acoustic studyVincent J. van Heuven, Renée van Bezooijen and Loulou Edelman | pp. 185–210
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A tale of two dialects: Relativization in Newcastle and SheffieldJoan C. Beal and Karen P. Corrigan | pp. 211–229
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PART III: Dialects across language boundaries
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Crossing grammatical borders: Tracing the path of contact-induced linguistic changeRuth King | pp. 233–251
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The after-perfect in Irish EnglishPatricia Ronan | pp. 253–270
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Dialect history in black and white: Are two colors enough?J.L. Dillard | pp. 271–285
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Index of languages and dialects | p. 287
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Subject index | pp. 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 & Metadata
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General