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
Published online on 1 July 2008

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

Table of Contents

Introduction | pp. vii–xii

PART I: Dialects across political and historical borders

The construction of linguistic borders and the linguistic construction of borders

Peter Auer | pp. 3–30

Static spatial relations in German and Romance: Towards a cognitive dialectology of posture verbs and locative adverbials

Raphael Berthele | pp. 31–50

Ingressive particles across borders: Gender and discourse parallels across the North Atlantic

Sandra Clarke and Gunnel Melchers | pp. 51–72

On the development of the consonant system in Mennonite Low German (Plautdietsch)

Larissa Naiditch | pp. 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 | pp. 87–117

PART II: Dialects across social and regional borders

Dialects across internal frontiers: Some cognitive boundaries

Dennis R. Preston | pp. 121–155

On 'dative sickness' and other linguistic diseases in modern Icelandic

Finnur Friðriksson | pp. 157–171

Can we find more variety in variation?

Ronald K.S. Macaulay | pp. 173–184

Pronunciation of /ei/ in avant-garde Dutch: A cross-sex acoustic study

Vincent J. van Heuven, Renée van Bezooijen and Loulou Edelman | pp. 185–210

A tale of two dialects: Relativization in Newcastle and Sheffield

Joan C. Beal and Karen P. Corrigan | pp. 211–229

PART III: Dialects across language boundaries

Crossing grammatical borders: Tracing the path of contact-induced linguistic change

Ruth King | pp. 233–251

The after-perfect in Irish English

Patricia Ronan | pp. 253–270

Dialect history in black and white: Are two colors enough?

J.L. Dillard | pp. 271–285

Index of languages and dialects | p. 287

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

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