Sociolinguistics

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.

This book investigates the acquisition of intonation by German/English bilingual children.

This volume presents a study of the phenomenon of dialect levelling, the process of the reduction of structural variation.

Minglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China's minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex process.

This study investigates the interface of power and politeness in the realization of disagreements in naturalistic language data.

Das Ritual der Preisverleihung ist längst ein wichtiges Machtinstrument im Kulturbetrieb geworden.

This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family.

Lavukaleve is a Papuan Language spoken on the Russell Islands in the Central Province of the Solomon Islands.

The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany.

The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view.

This book responds to recent criticisms that the research and theorization of multilingualism on the part of applied linguists are in collusion with neoliberal policies and economic interests.

Die mögliche Einführung der Präimplantationsdiagnostik in Deutschland wurde in den Jahren 2000 bis 2002 öffentlich kontrovers diskutiert.

The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics Department of the Roma Tre University.

Lange Zeit glaubte man in Europa, dass die Sprachen der Arbeitsmigranten, die seit den 60er Jahren aus der Türkei und anderen Ländern nach Mittel- und Nordeuropa kamen, spätestens in der dritten Generation zugunsten der jeweiligen Landessprachen der Einwanderungsländer verschwinden würden.

Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi is one of the first book-length studies of Malawian hip hop.

This edited book presents case-studies and reflections on the role of languages and their analytic study in development practices across four regions: Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific.

Moseten belongs to the small, unclassified language family Mosetenan and is spoken by roughly 800 people in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining lowland region.

This edited book brings together experts on the sociolinguistics of immigration with a focus on the Italo-Romance dialects.

This book looks in some detail into the sociolinguistic and formal linguistic situation which led to the decline and extinction of Manx Gaelic as a community language in the Isle of Man.

The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned.