Language variation--European perspectives selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005 (J. Benjamins Pub., 2006)
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Language Variation -- European Perspectives; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Twenty-five authors on twelve languages, sixteen language varieties, and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight speakers; Phrasal Verbs in Venetan and Regional Italian; Regional variation in intonation; Internal and external factors for clitic-shape variation in North-Eastern Catalan; The native / non-native speaker distinction and the diversity of linguistic profiles of young people in Swedish multilingual urban contexts; Language acquisition in a multilingual society
This volume presents 16 original studies of variation in languages representing the three main European language families, as well as in varieties of Greek and Hungarian. The studies concern variation in or across dialects or dialect groups, in standard varieties or in emerging regional varieties of the standard. Several studies investigate a specific linguistic element or structure, while others focus on areas of tension between variation and prescriptive standard norms, on regional standard varieties and regiolects, on problems of linguistic classification (from folk linguistic or dialect ge