Dialects across borders : selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002 / edited by Markku Filppula ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Filppula, Markku.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (11th : 2002 : University of Joensuu)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 273.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 273

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectology--Methodology--Congresses.

Dialectology.

Physical Description:

xii, 291 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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).

Contents:

DIALECTS ACROSS BORDERS

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I. Dialects across political and historical borders

THE CONSTRUCTION OF LINGUISTIC BORDERS AND THE LINGUISTIC CONSTRUCTION OF BORDERS

1. Introduction

2. Dialectology and the nation-state: ideological connections

3. Towards a theory of space in dialectology

4. The German state borders and the dialect continua crosscutting it

5. Conclusions

References

STATIC SPATIAL RELATIONS IN GERMAN AND ROMANCE

1. Data, varieties and informants

2. Conceptual structure of a spatial expression

3. Simple vs. complex expression of the association function

4. Co-event verbs

5. Discussion

INGRESSIVE PARTICLES ACROSS BORDERS

1. Background

2. Ingressive discourse particles as an areal feature

3. Ingressive usage in the Swedish and Newfoundland English taped corpora

4. Cross-linguistic gender correlates within the North Atlantic/Baltic Zone

5. Discourse parallels across the North Atlantic/Baltic Zone

6. Conclusion

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSONANT SYSTEM IN MENNONITE LOW GERMAN (PLAUTDIETSCH)

2. The historical background

3. Phonetic and phonological studies on PD: The state of research

4. The consonant system of PD: Synchronic and diachronic problems

ENGLISH DIALECTS IN THE BRITISH ISLES IN CROSS-VARIETY PERSPECTIVE

2. Historical background

3. The data

4. Diagnostic features investigated

5. Conclusion

II. Dialects across social and regional borders

DIALECTS ACROSS INTERNAL FRONTIERS

2. Production

3. Perception

4. Conclusion

ON 'DATIVE SICKNESS' AND OTHER LINGUISTIC DISEASES IN MODERN ICELANDIC

1. Diagnosis of illness

2. The present study.

3. Discussion and conclusion

CAN WE FIND MORE VARIETY IN VARIATION?

2. What to count and how

3. Conclusion

PRONUNCIATION OF / i/ IN AVANT-GARDE DUTCH

2. Experimental approach

3. Method

4. Results

5. Conclusions and discussion

A TALE OF TWO DIALECTS

1. Introduction: Northern Englishes

2. Relativization in Northern Dialects

III. Dialects across language boundaries

CROSSING GRAMMATICAL BORDERS

2. Problems with the language contact literature

3. Towards a theory of grammatical borrowing

4. Varieties of French in Canada

5. Prepositions Stranding in Prince Edward Island French

6. Preposition Stranding in Prince Edward Island French

7. Conclusion

THE AFTER-PERFECT IN IRISH ENGLISH

2. The perfect in English

3. Types of perfects in Hiberno-English

4. The after-perfect and its development

5. The after-perfect in the present corpus

6. Conclusions

7. Abbreviations

Appendix: After-Perfect

DIALECT HISTORY IN BLACK AND WHITE

INDEX OF LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS

SUBJECT INDEX

The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156335

9781282156333

1282156330

9789027294043

9027294046

OCLC:

233648255