Christian Schwarz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christian Schwarz plays a role.
Articles
2020 Chapter 5. Reduction and persistence of phonological dialect features in German Intermediate Language Varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe, Cerruti, Massimo and Stavroula Tsiplakou (eds.), pp. 103–124 | Chapter
Like in most European speech communities, the loss of rural dialects and the emergence of regional varieties could also be observed within the German speaking area since at least the 19th century. Previous research on mechanisms influencing the selection process of dialect features was mainly… read more
2009 New approaches to describing phonological change: The realisation of Middle High German î in the Alemannic Dialects of Southwest Germany Language Variation – European perspectives II: Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007, Tsiplakou, Stavroula, Marilena Karyolemou and Pavlos Pavlou (eds.), pp. 205–214 | Article
In most of the German-speaking area the constellation of dialect and standard repertoires has changed from diglossic to diaglossic – a process that involves the disappearance of rural dialects and the transition towards the use of regional variants of the standard language. The description of… read more