Language variation - European Perspectives VI : selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015 / edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Beat Siebenhaar.

"The International Conference for Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) addresses all aspects of linguistic variation observed in languages spoken in present-day Europe. The 8th ICLaVE conference took part from May 27th to May 29th at Leipzig University; Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation (ICLaVE8)."

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Intro -- Language Variation -- European Perspectives VI -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Scope of this volume -- Overview over individual chapters -- Plenaries -- Individual chapters -- References -- Plenaries -- Analytic and synthetic: Typological change in varieties of European languages -- 1. The macro-comparative perspective: Language typology and language contact -- 2. A short history of the analytic/synthetic terminology -- 3. Analytic/synthetic as a synchronic notion -- 4. Synthetic/analytic in diachrony -- 5. Analyticizations occur very commonly in creoles -- 5.1 Definite articles (APiCS 28, 9) -- 5.2 Indefinite articles (APiCS 29, 10) -- 5.3 Plural markers (APiCS 22, 23) -- 5.4 Genitive markers (APiCS 38, 37) -- 5.5 Personal pronouns in subject or possessor function (APiCS 62) -- 5.6 Accusative markers (APiCS 57) -- 5.7 Dative markers (APiCS 60, 61) -- 5.8 Future tense markers (cf. APiCS 48) -- 5.9 Past tense (or anterior) markers (APiCS 45) -- 5.10 Imperfective aspect markers (APiCS 46, 47, 48) -- 5.11 Causative construction -- 6. Analyticization is generally favoured by language-contact situations -- 7. Further examples of increased analyticity in European varieties -- 7.1 Increased analyticity in Afrikaans -- 7.2 Increased analyticity in Brazilian Portuguese -- 7.3 Increased analyticity in Bulgarian -- A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables: Big issues with smaller samples in language variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Going big from small (samples) -- 3. Language variation in context -- 4. Addressing a big problem for variationist sociolinguistics -- 5. The missing link -- a sociolinguistic Higgs-Boson particle? -- 6. Individuals and groups in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) -- 7. Linguistic features in the Bequia corpus.

8. Clustering speakers with respect to multiple linguistic features -- 9. Where this takes us and where it leaves us -- References -- Dynamics, variation and the brain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. First type: Sound change proceeds one word at a time -- 2.1 Data and explanations -- 2.2 ... and the brain? -- 3. Second type: Sound change affects phonemes as a whole -- 3.1 Data and explanations -- 3.2 ... and the brain? -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Individual chapters -- Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Galician dialects -- 3. The data set -- 4. Results and commentary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community: The acquisition of dialect and standard Dutch vocabulary -- 1. Introduction: Bidialectism in the Dutch province of Limburg -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Participants and procedure -- 2.2 Measures -- 2.3 Parental questionnaire, and overview of participants and results -- 3. Results of the Limburgish Word Task -- 4. Relationship between the extent of dialect used in the LWT and the acquisition of Dutch vocabulary -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- The unruly dialect variant [a]: The case of the opening of (ɛ) in the traditional Torsby dialect -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Data -- 4. Dialect change in Torsby -- 5. The unruly [a] -- 6. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology and results -- 3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Between local and standard varieties: Horizontal and vertical convergence and divergence of dialects in Southern Spain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialect convergence and divergence in Castilian Spanish -- 2.1 Standard-dialect constellation.

2.2 Varieties -- 3. Linguistic constraints on cross-dialect variation -- 3.1 Mergers and demergers -- 3.2 Demerger of dental /????????/. A case of change from above -- 3.3 Erosive changes -- 3.4 Cross-dialect variation. Syllable-final /s/ -- 3.5 Near-Andalusian Castilian -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Syntactic doubling and variation: The case of Romani -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and method -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Linguistic factors -- 3.2 Social factors -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 The language contact hypothesis -- 4.2 Socio-linguistic account of the variation -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Variation in style: Register and lifestyle in Parisian French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Subject-verb inversion in wh-questions and subject doubling in French -- 4. Lifestyle and Bourdieu's sociocultural theory -- 5. Operationalization of lifestyle -- 5.1 Data reduction -- 5.2 Factor analysis -- 5.3 Cluster analysis -- 6. The effect of lifestyle and other social variables on inversion and doubling -- 6.1 Statistical results -- 6.2 Discussion -- References -- A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three semantic types of concessives -- 3. Previous quantitative approaches and research questions -- 4. Data and methodology -- 5. Results -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century: An interplay of language-internal and contact-induced variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus and study design -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Im Fall(e)(,) dass/falls 'in case (that)' -- 3.2 Displacement of wann 'when' as conjunction -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas: VerbaAlpina and the challenges of digital humanities (DH) -- 1. Introduction.

2. VerbaAlpina -- the investigation of a multilingual region -- 2.1 The Alpine region as an area under investigation -- 2.2 A selective and analytical exploration of the Alpine region -- 2.3 The transition from traditional to modern geolinguistics -- 3. Methodology: How to combine different projects -- 3.1 Different projects with different aims -- 3.2 The structure of the map content -- 3.3 The conversion of the transcription systems -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Variation in Croatian: The verbal behaviour of rural speakers in an urban speech community -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hypothesis and objectives -- 3. Method and problems of method -- 4. The controlled process of self-representation as an act of identity -- 5. Geographical markers as social markers -- 5.1 The dynamics of rural speakers' identity construction -- 5.2 Differences in verbal behaviour based on the hinterland -- island/coast duality -- 5.3 Gender and perceived accommodation -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Index.

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