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Publication details [#56872]

Golovko, Ekaterina. 2012. The Formation of Regional Italian as a Consequence of Language Contact.The Salentino Case. Journal of language contact 5 (1) : 117–134.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language change | language contact | sociolinguistics | standard1 vs. dialect2

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This study argues that the spoken Italian variety, or regional Italian, in Salentino, stems from contact-induced change of Standard Italian (SI), affected by the local Salentino dialect.