Books: 'Linguistic varieties'

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Varieties of English in writing: The written word as linguistic evidence. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

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Siemund, Peter. Pronominal gender in English: A study of English varieties from a cross-linguistic perspective. New York: Routledge, 2008.

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Russian and Soviet sociolinguistics and taboo varieties of the Russian language: (argot, jargon, slang, and "mat"). München: O. Sagner, 1986.

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Muhr, Rudolf. Exploring linguistic standards in non-dominant varieties of pluricentric languages: Explorando estándares lingüísticos en variedades no dominantes de lenguas pluricéntricas. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2013.

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Timroth, Wilhelm von. Russian and Soviet Sociolinguistics and Taboo Varieties of the Russian Language: Transl. into Engl. by Nortrud Gupta. Rev. and Enlarged ed. Bern: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 1986.

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Linguistic and cultural identities in Chinese varieties of English: Zhongguo Ying yu bian ti zhong de yu yan he wen hua ren tong. Beijing Shi: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2005.

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Gass, Susan M. Varieties of English. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.

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Mesthrie, Rajend. World Englishes: An introduction to new language varieties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Relative constructions in European non-standard varieties. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

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Thanking formulae in English: Explorations across varieties and genres. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.

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Gunvor, Mejdell, and Edzard Lutz, eds. High vs. low and mixed varieties: Status, norms and functions across time and languages. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012.

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Pronominal gender in English: A study of English varieties from a cross-linguist perspective. London: Routledge, 2007.

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Standards of English: Codified varieties around the world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Processing varieties in English: An examination of oral and written speech across genres. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1990.

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Viaplana, Joaquim. Entre la dialectologia i la lingüística: La distància lingüística entre les varietats del català nord-occidental. Barcelona: Abadía de Montserrat, 1999.

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Benacchio, Rosanna, Alessio Muro, and Svetlana Slavkova, eds. The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9.

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One of the most widely debated topics in Slavic linguistics has always been verbal aspect, which takes different forms because of the various grammaticalization paths which led to its emergence. In the formation of the category of aspect in Slavic languages, a key role was played by the morphological mechanism of prefixation (a.k.a. preverbation), whereby the prefixes (which originally performed the function of markers of adverbial meanings) came to act as markers of boundedness. This volume contains thirteen articles on the mechanism of prefixation, written by leading international scholars in the field of verbal aspect. Ancient and modern Slavic varieties, as well as non-Slavic and even non-Indo-European languages, are represented, making the volume an original and significant contribution to Slavic as well as typological linguistics.

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Myers-Scotton, Carol. Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties. Oxford University Press, USA, 1998.

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Carol, Myers-Scotton, ed. Codes and consequences: Choosing linguistic varieties. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Myers-Scotton, Carol. Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties. Oxford University Press, USA, 1998.

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Schreier, Daniel, and Danae Perez Inofuentes. Isolated Varieties. Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.014.

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This chapter explores the role of isolation as an important sociolinguistic variable in the evolution of language varieties. We outline three dimensions of isolation: geographic, social, and socio-psychological isolation. In insular settings, for example, geographic isolation is the most influential factor in the independent evolution of a variety, whereas in so-called Sprachinseln and immigrant communities, social and socio-psychological isolation may be more important. Moreover, the chapter discusses sociolinguistic changes in isolated communities, both in terms of retention of linguistic features as well as in local innovation. We argue that isolated communities and their individual histories lend themselves ideally to investigations in dialectology, contact linguistics, and diachronic processes of language change.

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1969-, King Kendall A., ed. Sustaining linguistic diversity: Endangered and minority languages and language varieties. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 2008.

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Hubert, Stern Dieter, and Voss Christian, eds. Marginal linguistic identities: Studies in Slavic contact and borderland varieties. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006.

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Filppula, Markku, Heli Paulasto, and Juhani Klemola. Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Markku, Filppula, Klemola Juhani, and Paulasto Heli, eds. Vernacular universals and language contacts: Evidence from varieties of English and beyond. New York: Routledge, 2009.

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Keiser, Jessica. Varieties of Intentionalism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0008.

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In Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language, Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone offer a multifaceted critique of the Gricean picture of language use, proposing in its place a novel framework for understanding the role of convention in linguistic communication. They criticize Lewis’s and Grice’s commitment to what they call ‘prospective intentionalism,’ according to which utterance meaning is determined by the conversational effects intended by the speaker. Instead, they make a case for what they call ‘direct intentionalism’, according to which utterance meaning is determined by the speaker’s intentions to use it under a certain grammatical analysis. I argue that there is an equivocation behind their critique, both regarding the type of meaning that is at issue and the question each theory is attempting to answer; once we prise these issues apart, we find that Lepore and Stone’s main contentions are compatible with the broadly Lewisian/Gricean picture.

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(Editor), Kendall King, Natalie Schilling-Estes (Editor), Lyn Wright Fogle (Editor), Jia Jackie Lou (Editor), and Barbara Soukup (Editor), eds. Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Proceedings)). Georgetown University Press, 2008.

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Millar, Robert McColl. Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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Millar, Robert McColl. Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

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Siemund, Peter. Pronominal Gender in English: A study of English varieties from a cross linguistic perspective (Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics). Routledge, 2007.

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Siemund, Peter. Pronominal Gender in English: A Study of English Varieties from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Muhr, Rudolf. Exploring Linguistic Standards in Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages Explorando Estandares Linguisticos en Variedades No Dominantes de Lenguas Pluricentricas. Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter, 2013.

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Kruschwitz, Peter. Linguistic Variation, Language Change, and Latin Inscriptions. Edited by Christer Bruun and Jonathan Edmondson. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195336467.013.033.

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This chapter investigates Latin inscriptions that contain linguistic features which appear to stem from popular, as opposed to elite, usage and are rarely, if ever, found in Roman literary authors, unless these were explicitly seeking to mimic uneducated, semi-literate, or moronic people’s speech. Topics treated include: diastratic, diaphasic, and diatopic varieties of Latin, the now contested concept of “Vulgar Latin,” and the phonology, morphology, and syntax and semantics of such Latin inscriptions. The chapter traces the broader use of the Latin language than that found in the literary corpus and thus widens our understanding of what may be considered “standard” Latin.

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Mufwene, Salikoko S. Population Movements, Language Contact, Linguistic Diversity, Etc. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190657543.003.0018.

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This chapter argues that languages move with people for various reasons, including nomadism, long-distance trade, colonization, exile and refuge, and deportations. While not necessarily mutually exclusive, these categories enable a better understanding of the differential evolution of languages at home and in the diasporas, owing to differing population structures and other ecological conditions resulting from different kinds of migrations within, into, and out of Africa in particular. In contrast with the fragility of its languages in the diaspora, the continent has been remarkable for the resilience of its indigenous vernaculars relative to the prestigious European colonial languages and the urban varieties that European colonization generated. This resilience is due to the division of labor in communicative functions as well as to stagnation of African economies, both of which have sustained multilingualism through socioeconomic and cultural segregation. From this theoretical foundation, the chapter then engages with the previous contributions to the volume.

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G, Mayes David, ed. The varieties of linguistic, religious, and geographical identities in Europe: Essays on the problem of European unification. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

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Grohmann, Kleanthes K., Maria Kambanaros, and Evelina Leivada, eds. Developmental, Modal, and Pathological Variation — Linguistic and Cognitive Profiles for Speakers of Linguistically Proximal Languages and Varieties. Frontiers Media SA, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88945-638-3.

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Polzenhagen, Frank, and Hans-Georg Wolf. World Englishes and Cognitive Linguistics. Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.016.

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This chapter presents Cognitive Linguistics as a framework for investigating World Englishes. In particular, it aims to show that the theoretical and methodological apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics provides a suitable handle for analyzing the sociocultural dimension of language and language variation. For this purpose, case studies of first and second language varieties of English are highlighted in which cognitive-linguistic notions have been fruitfully applied in this respect. The focus is on allophone variation from the perspective of the associated sociocultural meaning, the contribution of conceptual-metaphor and cultural-keyword research to the comparative study of varieties of English, and the manifestation of ‘cultural models’ in varieties that are rooted in markedly different cultural contexts.

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Lacoste, Véronique. The Caribbean. Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.39.

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This chapter provides a linguistic description of the English varieties found in the anglophone Caribbean. It briefly reviews major socio-historical processes involved in Creole genesis and in the emergence of local standard Englishes in this region, with a focus on the concept of the Creole language continuum. The linguistic overview includes phonological and morphosyntactic features which have been described as being typical of standard and nonstandard varieties of Caribbean English. The emphasis is placed on the breadth of linguistic diversity that exists within ‘the standard to nonstandard English’ range of the continuum (i.e., varieties furthest away from basilectal Creoles), while recognizing the complexity of the linguistic overlap between these varieties on the continuum.

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Gladkova, Hana, and Juliane Besters-Dilger. Second Language Acquisition in Complex Linguistic Environments: Russian Native Speakers Acquiring Standard and Non-Standard Varieties of German and Czech. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2016.

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Gladkova, Hana, and Juliane Besters-Dilger. Second Language Acquisition in Complex Linguistic Environments: Russian Native Speakers Acquiring Standard and Non-Standard Varieties of German and Czech. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2016.

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Gladkova, Hana, and Juliane Besters-Dilger. Second Language Acquisition in Complex Linguistic Environments: Russian Native Speakers Acquiring Standard and Non-Standard Varieties of German and Czech. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2016.

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Muhr, Rudolf, Carla Amorós Negre, and Carmen Fernández Juncal, eds. Exploring Linguistic Standards in Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages- Explorando estándares lingüísticos en variedades no dominantes de lenguas pluricéntricas. Peter Lang D, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-02709-9.

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Gladkova, Hana, and Juliane Besters-Dilger. Second Language Acquisition in Complex Linguistic Environments: Russian Native Speakers Acquiring Standard and Non-Standard Varieties of German and Czech. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2016.

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Winford, Donald. World Englishes and Creoles. Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.011.

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It is now generally acknowledged that the creation of all New Englishes (both ‘creoles’ and ‘indigenized varieties’) shares a great deal in common with regard to both the socio-historical circumstances and the processes of linguistic restructuring and change that were involved. It is generally agreed that these creations are all outcomes of language shift (i.e., group second language acquisition). The processes of restructuring by which they emerged involved the interplay of three primary factors: input from English varieties, influence from learners’ L1s, and internal developments. This chapter discusses the similarities and differences in the macro-level social contexts and community settings in which both creoles and indigenized varieties emerged and shows how such factors help us to understand the similarities in the processes of linguistic restructuring and adaptation that led to their creation.

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Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Introduction. Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.38.

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This volume brings together thirty-six chapters on World Englishes, which are here understood to refer to the full range of Englishes, both where English dominates as a native language and not. The collection is designed to offer a mutually constructive engagement with current linguistic theories, methods, questions, and hypotheses. With this primary theoretical orientation in sight, the chapters in the volume are divided into four thematic parts: Foundations, World Englishes and Linguistic Theory, Areal Profiles, and Case Studies. This arrangement offers balanced coverage of detailed accounts of the foundations and social histories of varieties of English spoken across the globe as well as the mutually enriching potential of studying World Englishes within diverse theoretical subareas of Linguistics. The collection closes with a set of case studies that exemplify this type of analysis.

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Baptista, Marlyse. The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento Varieties (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today). John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2003.

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Baptista, Marlyse. The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento Varieties (Linguistik Artuell/Linguistics Today). John Benjamins Pub Co, 2003.

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Mesthrie, Rajend. Teaching the History of English. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190611040.003.0004.

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This chapter addresses how the history of English as a linguistic topic has been taught in one South African university. The author focuses on the traditional Old–Middle–Modern English trichotomy as well as colonial and postcolonial synchronic varieties. Subsequent to a curricular shift from historical to applied linguistics in English departments, students taking History of the English Language (HEL) come to the course with little or no background in Old and Middle English. The author offers practical examples of how he accommodated this change in student preparation. Additionally, he addresses how the postcolonial era and globalisation have “revitalised the story of English.” Pidgins, Creoles, and World Englishes problematise the earlier genealogy of the Standard Language, making a linear history less easy to uphold. The author’s discussion of his complementary “Pidgins, Creoles, and New Englishes” course includes helpful pointers to instructors teaching these varieties within a HEL course.

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Benmamoun, Elabbas, and Lina Choueiri. The Syntax of Arabic From A Generative Perspective. Edited by Jonathan Owens. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199764136.013.0006.

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Research on Arabic varieties within modern syntactic approaches has tracked the debates that have preoccupied the field of generative linguistics in its different incarnations throughout the last six decades. The debates centered on the nature of linguistic categories, syntactic configurations and their constituents, syntactic alternations and processes that alter the order of constituents, and dependencies between members of the syntactic representations. This article considers the main issues within Arabic syntax and the influential approaches that have been advanced. It focuses on debates surrounding phrase structure and word order, the syntax of the noun phrase, subjects and subject agreement, negation, long A’-dependencies, and wh-in situ constructions.

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Holes, Clive, ed. Arabic Historical Dialectology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198701378.001.0001.

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This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab conquests of the seventh century up to the present day. It specifically investigates the evolution of Arabic as a spoken language, in contrast to the many existing studies that focus on written Classical or Modern Standard Arabic. The volume begins with a discursive introduction that deals with important issues in the general scholarly context, including the indigenous myth and probable reality of the history of Arabic; Arabic dialect geography and typology; types of internally and externally motivated linguistic change; social indexicalization; and pidginization and creolization in Arabic-speaking communities. Most chapters then focus on developments in a specific region—Mauritania, the Maghreb, Egypt, the Levant, the Northern Fertile Crescent, the Gulf, and South Arabia—with one exploring Judaeo-Arabic, a group of varieties historically spread over a wider area. The remaining two chapters in the volume examine individual linguistic features of particular historical interest and controversy, specifically the origin and evolution of the b- verbal prefix, and the adnominal linker –an/–in. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of the linguistic and social history of Arabic as well as to comparative linguists interested in topics such as linguistic typology and language change.

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Schneider, Edgar W. Models of English in the World. Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.001.

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This chapter systematically surveys conceptual frameworks (models) that have been suggested to identify similarities between World Englishes and to classify them accordingly. The earliest suggestions along these lines were static models, which either worked out historically based relationships between national varieties, having branched off in a family-tree-like manner, or classified countries based on whether English is used as a native, second or foreign language in them. Other early categorizations emphasized the global, national or regional outreach of varieties (in “hub-and-spoke” models) or variety types based on sociolinguistic settings in communities and their resulting linguistic properties. In contrast, recent models emphasize the evolutionary or even cyclic character of varieties; these include Trudgill’s deterministic theory and, very widely accepted nowadays, Schneider’s Dynamic Model, which is broadly outlined, including a brief discussion of some applications of and reactions to it.

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