Language Variation - European Perspectives III

1. Introduction (by Gregersen, Frans); 2. Where does the social stop? (by Eckert, Penelope); 3. The role of intonation in Austrian listeners' perceptions of standard-dialect shifting (by Feizollahi, Zhaleh); 4. Hybridity and ethnic accents: A sociophonetic analysis of 'Glaswasian' (by Stuart-Smith, Jane); 5. A contact-linguistic view on Finland-Swedish quotatives vara, 'be', and att, 'that' (by Henricson, Sofie); 6. Quotations and quotatives in the speech of three Danish generations (by Rathje, Marianne); 7. The role of information structure in linguistic variation: Evidence from a German multiethnolect (by Wiese, Heike); 8. "Oh, they're top, them": Right dislocated tags and interactional stance (by Moore, Emma); 9. Changing the world vs. changing the mind: Distinctive collexeme analysis of the causative construction with doen in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch (by Levshina, Natalia); 10. Variation in long-distance dependencies (by Schippers, Ankelien); 11. Reconciling corpus and questionnaire data in microcomparative syntax: A case study from North Germanic (by Vangsnes, Oystein Alexander); 12. "Judge not lest ye be judged": Exploring methods for the collection of socio-syntactic data (by Buchstaller, Isabelle); 13. Corpus-based variation studies - A methodology (by Ruus, Hanne); 14. Dialect convergence across language boundaries: A challenge for areal linguistics (by Hoder, Steffen); 15. The role of morphology in phonological change: Rethinking diffusion theory (by Kunnas, Niina); 16. Spelling variants of the present participle in a selection of Northern English and Scots texts of the late 14th and the 15th centuries (by Gardela, Wojciech); 17. Collocations, attitudes, and English loan words in Finnish (by Tamminen-Parre, Saija); 18. The variety and richness of words for relatives in Slovene (by Jakop, Tjasa); 19. "A den of iniquity" or "The hotbed of civilization"? Urban areas as locations for linguistic studies in Norway: A historiographical perspective (by Maehlum, Brit); 20. Index