LINGUIST List 13.998

Thu Apr 11 2002

Books: Socioling: Present-day Dialectology

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

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1. Julia Ulrich, Present-day Dialectology,Problems and Findings by J.Berns & J.van Marle

New Publication from Mouton de Gruyter!!!


>From the series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
Series Editor: Werner Winter

Present-day Dialectology
Problems and Findings

Edited by Jan Berns and Jaap van Marle

2002. 23 x 15,5 cm. VII, 366 pages.
Cloth. approx. EUR 98,- / sFr 157,- /approx. US$ 98.00
ISBN 3-11-016781-6
(Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 137)

Present-day Dialectology does not treat dialectology as an isolated
discipline. Instead, it discusses dialectological topics within the
framework of present-day linguistics. The book contains papers which
seek to confront recent phonological, morphologic, syntactic and
semantic theory with dialectological data. In addition, it explores
the link between dialectology on the one hand and sociolinguistics and
the study of language contact on the other. Therefore, this study is
not only of interest to dialectologists, but also to sociolinguists,
students of language contact as well as theoretical linguists in
general.


Contents:

Werner Abraham: Characteristics of spoken vernaculars: parsing
strategies? The Case of German

Gert Booij: Language variation and phonological theory: inflected
adjectives in Dutch and related languages

Dennis R. Preston: Perceptual dialectology: aims, methods, findings

Georges de Schutter: Parallels in the phonological systems of Southern
Dutch and Northern French dialects

Wolfgang Viereck: Britain and the Continent - linguistic interrelations

Joseph J. S. Weitenberg: Aspects of Armenian dialectology

Lieselotte Anderwald - Bernd Kortmann: Typology and dialectology: a
programmatic sketch

Charlotte Gooskens / Ren�e van Bezooijen: The role of prosodic and
verbal aspects of speech in the perceived divergence of Dutch and
English language varieties

R�diger Harnisch: Morphologische Reanalysen bei lokalen Adverbien,
Pr�positionen und Adjektiven im Th�ringischen und Ostfr�nkischen

Jos� Ignacio Hualde: Basque accentuation and dialectology

Jaap van Marle / Caroline Smits: On the (non-)persistence of dialect
features in American Dutch (1): general aspects

Caroline Smits: On the (non-)persistence of dialect features
in American Dutch (2): the case of Iowa Dutch

Inge Lise Pedersen: The impact of internal or contact-induced change on
weak preterites in -at in Danish dialects with an outlook to Norway and
Sweden

Michael D. Picone: Meta-constraints and constraint ranking in relation
to the representation of nasality and palatality across French dialects

Sibylle Reichel: Probleme bei der Erstellung von Sprachkarten im
Untersuchungsgebiet des "Bayerischen Sprachatlas" am Beispiel von
Richtungsadverbien

Beat Siebenhaar: Dialektwandel und Einstellung - Das Beispiel der
Aarauer Stadtmundart
Dialect change and attitudes

Dick Smakman / Ren�e van Bezooijen: The pronunciation of standard Dutch
- An evaluation study

Jos Swanenberg: On ethnobiological nomenclature in Southern Dutch
dialects


Index of subjects
Index of authors


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