Language variation -- European perspectives IV : selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011 / edited by Peter Auer, Javier Caro Reina, Göz Kaufmann.

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In recent years a new form has emerged in the paradigm of the indefinite article, the so-called "extended short form" nen (Vogel 2006) as in: Ich hab' nen Mann gesehen. As little is known about the origin of this form (when was it used first, by whom, and in what contexts?), this paper will trace the history of nen using several corpora of colloquial German that cover language use in the 1960s, 1970s and 2000s (Pfeffer-Corpus, Freiburger-Corpus, Dialogstrukturen-Corpus, Emergency-Call-Corpus). Quantitative analyses reveal distinct patterns of variation, which indicate a la.

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Introduction / Peter Auer, Javier Caro Reina & Göz Kaufmann -- Where is syntactic variation? / Sjef Barbiers -- Phonological variation in Catalan and Alemannic from a typological perspectve / Javier Caro Reina -- Language ideologies and language attitudes: A linguistic anthropological perspective / Jillian R. Cavanaugh -- Late language acquisition and identy construction: Variation in use of the Dutch definite determiners de and het / Leonie Cornips & Aafke Hulk -- The variation of gender agreement on numerals in the Alpine space / Silvia Dal Negro -- 'Standard usage': Towards a realistic conception of spoken standard German / Arnulf Deppermann, Sefan Kleiner & Ralf Knöbl -- Code alternation patterns in bilingual family conversations: Implications for an integrated model of analysis / Marianthi Georgalidou, Hasan Kaili & Aytac Celtek -- A variationist approach to syntactic change: The case of subordinate clause word order in the history of Swedish / David Håkansson -- Children's switching/shifting competence in role-playing / Matthias Katerbow.

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