Dialect, slang and jargon

This book brings together three perspectives on language and space that are quite well-researched within themselves, but which so far are lacking productive interconnections.

The "e;one-nation-one-language"e; assumption is as unrealistic as the well-known Chomskyan ideal of a homogeneous speech community.

This present book studies from a dialectological perspective various African Arabic varieties, such as Maghreb Arabic, Bongor Arabic, Juba Arabic and Logori Arabic.

The intention of the present volume is to unite the research of a range of scholars who have been working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.

Dialectology proper has traditionally focused on the geographic distribution of language variation as an end in itself and has remained relatively segregated from other branches of linguistic and extra-linguistic inquiry.

This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects.

Cross-linguistic studies on relative constructions in European languages are often centred on standard varieties as described in reference grammars.

The book offers a comprehensive overview of forms of modern Irish within a general linguistic framework.

The volume explores the relationship between linguistic universals and language variation.

In variational linguistics, the concept of space has always been a central issue.

Dialekträume werden wahrnehmungsdialektologisch als kognitive Räume gesehen, die sich durch linguistische, geographische und sozio-kulturelle Konzeptualisierungen konstituieren.

Die Begriffe ‚Nähe‘ und ‚Distanz‘ bezeichnen konzeptionelle Eigenschaften von Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit.

The major aim of the book is to trace the current structuring of the Chinese language(s) on the ground of Chinese linguistics.

Historical linguistic theory and practice contains a great number of different 'layers' which have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanency of their own.

While variation within individual languages has traditionally been focused upon in sociolinguistics, its relevance for grammatical theory has only recently been acknowledged.

Within the European context, linguistic diversity can be studied at the level of both official state languages and non-national languages.

Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process?

This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken in the Americas and the Caribbean, including regional, social and ethnic dialects (such as Southern US, Canadian or Chicano English) as well as Caribbean creoles from the Bahamas to Suriname.

Während die regionale Variation auf der Ebene der segmentellen Phonetik/Phonologie zu weiten Teilen beschrieben ist, steckt die dialektologische Intonationsforschung noch weitgehend in den Kinderschuhen, obwohl regionalspezifische Intonationsmerkmale sowohl in der Laien- als auch in der Forschermeinung als perzeptiv besonders signifikant gelten.

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles.

In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence?

The comprehensive analysis of the segmental and metrical system of the Swiss German dialect of Thurgovian provides a significant contribution to both phonetic and phonological theory.