Language variation--European perspectives II : selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLAVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007 / edited by Stavroula Tsiplakou, Marilena Karyolemou, Pavlos Pavlou.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Tsiplakou, Stavroula.

Karyolemou, Marilena.

Pavlou, Pavlos Y., 1964-

Conference Name:

International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (4th : 2007 : Nicosia, Cyprus)

International Conference on Language Variation in Europe

Series:

Studies in language variation ; 5.

Studies in language variation, 1872-9592 ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Europe--Languages--Variation--Congresses.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper explores different options for establishing the matrix language in Russian-Estonian code-switching. First, the notions of matrix and embedded language are introduced, followed by a short overview of the Russian-Estonian bilingual situation in Estonia. The Matrix Language Frame model (Myers-Scotton 1993, 1997, 2002) is introduced in the third part of the paper, where the corporal data are described as well. A possible application of the Matrix Language Frame model to the Russian-Estonian code-switching data is presented in part four. It is argued that in most cases the matrix language is clearly definable. However, there are instances which can be best described as "congruent lexicalisation" (Muysken 2000).

Contents:

Introduction / Stavroula Tsiplakou, Marilena Karyolemou & Pavlos Pavlou

Clefts in Cypriot Greek / Yoryia Agouraki

Lexical change, discourse practices and the French press: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? / Fabienne Baider

Arbitrary subjects of infinitival clauses in European and Brazilian Portuguese / Silvia Regina Cavalcante & Maria Eugênia L. Duarte

Modal verbs in long verb clusters: an innovation in early modern Dutch / Griet Coupé

Changing pronominal gender in Dutch: transmission or diffusion? / Gunther De Vogelaer

Meaning variation and change in Greek morphology / Gaberell Drachman

Syntactic variation in German-English code-mixing / Eva Eppler

Sources of phonological variation in a large database for Dutch dialects / Frans Hinskens & Marc van Oostendorp

Broad vs. localistic dialectology, standard vs. dialect: the case of the Balkans and the drawing of linguistic boundaries / Brian D. Joseph

Intonational variation in Swiss German / Adrian Leemann

Morphological reduction in Aromanian / Maria Maglara

Greek dialect variation: a co-grammar approach / Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman

Using electronic corpora to study language variation: the problem of data sparsity / Hermann Moisl

Language attitudes and folk perceptions towards linguistic variation / Andreas Papapavlou & Andry Sophocleous

Salience and resilience in a set of Tyneside English shibboleths / Charley Rowe

New approaches to describing phonological change: the realisation of middle high German î in the Alemannic dialects of southwest Germany / Christian Schwarz & Tobias Streck

Variation and grammaticisation: the emergence of an aspectual opposition / Rena Torres-Cacoullos

Towards establishing the matrix language in Russian-Estonian code-switching: a corpus-based approach / Anastassia Zabrodskaja.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-44502-2

9786612445026

90-272-8926-3

OCLC:

649901477