Table of contents
Chapter 1.Koinai and regional standard varieties in Europe: An introduction1
Chapter 2.Regional varieties in Norway revisited31
Chapter 3.Surviving Limburg and Hollandic dialect features and what they have in common55
Chapter 4.German regiolects and socio-cultural identity79
Chapter 5.Reduction and persistence of phonological dialect features in German103
Chapter 6.From dialect to standard: Facilitating and constraining factors: On some uses of the Italian negative particle mica125
Chapter 7.Variation, identity and indexicality in southern Spanish: On the emergence of a new variety in urban Andalusia149
Chapter 8.The role of interdialectal forms in the formation of koinai: Sociolinguistic aspects183
Chapter 9.Survival of the ‘oddest’? Levelling, shibboleths, reallocation and the construction of intermediate varieties203
Chapter 10.Language variation and maintenance in Cypriot Romeika: A case of non-koineisation231
Index253
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