Intermediate Language Varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe
Edited by Massimo Cerruti and Stavroula Tsiplakou
[Studies in Language Variation, 24] 2020. vi, 258 pp.
Massimo Cerruti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Massimo Cerruti plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2024 Chapter 8. After dialectalisation: An overview of ongoing processes of convergence in Italian The Continuity of Linguistic Change: Selected papers in honour of Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Vida-Castro, Matilde and Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz (eds.), pp. 164–182 | Chapter
This paper provides an overview of ongoing processes of convergence in the Italian language. It focuses on regional varieties of Italian, which essentially are the result of the so-called dialectalisation of the standard language and are nowadays affected by extensive processes of vertical and… read more
2020 Chapter 6. From dialect to standard: Facilitating and constraining factors: On some uses of the Italian negative particle mica Intermediate Language Varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe, Cerruti, Massimo and Stavroula Tsiplakou (eds.), pp. 125–148 | Chapter
This paper deals with the selection of morphosyntactic features in Italo-Romance. Firstly, a brief overview will be provided of the language space between traditional dialects and the standard variety of Italian, with particular emphasis on how this space is shaped differently across Italo-Romance.… read more
2020 Chapter 1. Koinai and regional standard varieties in Europe: An introduction Intermediate Language Varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe, Cerruti, Massimo and Stavroula Tsiplakou (eds.), pp. 1–29 | Chapter
2015 The interplay between dialect and standard: Evidence from Italo-Romance Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013, Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland (eds.), pp. 55–68 | Article
The paper is inspired by the theoretical framework provided by Auer’s (2005) typology of “dialect/standard constellations”, which aims to detect common dynamics in the current processes of dialect/standard convergence in Europe. Some adjustments to Auer’s proposal will be suggested to better suit… read more