Dialect Levelling in Limburg : : Structural and sociolinguistic aspects /

Dialect Levelling in Limburg : : Structural and sociolinguistic aspects / / Frans Hinskens.

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This volume presents a study of the phenomenon of dialect levelling, the process of the reduction of structural variation. The investigation focuses on an originally rural Limburg dialect of Dutch. The approach is basically quantitatively sociolinguistic, although methods and insights from historica...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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Hinskens, Frans,
Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2015]
©1996
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 356
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Physical Description:1 online resource (411 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Symbols and abbreviations
  • Part I. Models
  • Chapter 1. A sociolinguistic model and three hypotheses
  • Chapter 2. The phonological model
  • Part II. Setting, methods and linguistic variables
  • Chapter 3. The research area
  • Chapter 4. Methodological aspects
  • Chapter 5. The linguistic variables
  • Part III. Findings. The broader approach
  • Chapter 6. Quantitative analyses for each single linguistic variable
  • Chapter 7. Dialect levelling and structural dependence between linguistic variables
  • Part IV. The deeper approach
  • Chapter 8. Selection and analysis of the linguistic variables in the spontaneous data
  • Chapter 9. Findings for the in-group conversations
  • Chapter 10. Findings for the out-group conversations
  • Chapter 11. Dialect levelling and accommodation: testing the third hypothesis
  • Part V. Sizing up and looking ahead
  • Chapter 12. Discussion and some issues for further research
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Subject index

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