The study takes 17 phonetic and 9 morphological variables as the basis for determining the degree of dialectality displayed by 84 informants from the Italian capital.
Using a data base of more than 86,000 verb tokens from texts written by Nurembergers between 1356 and 1619, this book explores some of the many changes in verbal inflection that took place during this period and their implications for a number of important questions in morphological and diachronic theory.
Die Germanistischen Arbeitshefte setzen sich zum Ziel, etablierte Forschungsbereiche und aktuelle Forschungsdiskussionen der germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft für die akademische Lehre und das Selbststudium zugänglich zu machen.
This study examines the effect of race-consciousness upon the pronunciation of American English and upon the ideology of standardization in the twentieth century.
In this volume of 29 papers, readers interested in language variation and historical linguistics will find interesting theoretical proposals as well as suggestions concerning ways of approaching previously unsolved empirical problems in the field.