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Taming the Vernacular From dialect to written standard language
270 Pages
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Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Taming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard Language examines the differences between 'standard' and 'nonstandard' varieties of several different languages. Not only are some of the best-known languages of Europe represented here, but also some that have been less well-researched in the past. The chapters address the syntax of Dutch, English, French, Finnish, Galician, German and... Read more
1. The syntax of spoken language
Jenny Cheshire and Dieter Stein
2. Dialect versus standard language: nature versus culture
Jaap van Marle
3. Syntax and varieties
Dieter Stein
4. Into and out of the standard language: the particle ni in Finnish
Maria Vilkuna
5. Involvement in 'standard' and 'nonstandard' English
Jenny Cheshire
6. This, that, yon: on 'three-dimensional' systems
Gunnel Melchers
7. Grammatical variation and the avoidance of stress clashes in Northern Low German
Günter Rohdenburg
8. Norms made easy: case marking with modal verbs in Finnish
Lea Laitinen
9. Articles and number in oral or close-to-oral varieties
Brigitte Schlieben-Lange
10. Proscribed collocations with shall and will: the eighteenth century (non-) standard reassessed
Leslie K. Arnovick
11. The genitives of the relative pronouns in present-day English
Aimo Sepp™nen
12. 'Ah'm going for to give youse a story today': remarks on second plural pronouns in Englishes
Susan Wright
13. Strengthening identity: differentiation and change in contemporary Galacian
Johannes Kabatek
14. Left dislocation in French: varieties, norm and usage
Alain Berrendonner and Marie-José Reichler-Béguelin
15. Dialect variation as a consequence of standardization
Dieter Wanner
16. The atternings of nonstandard syntax in German
Beate Henn-Memmesheimer
Contributors
Jenny Cheshire and Dieter Stein
2. Dialect versus standard language: nature versus culture
Jaap van Marle
3. Syntax and varieties
Dieter Stein
4. Into and out of the standard language: the particle ni in Finnish
Maria Vilkuna
5. Involvement in 'standard' and 'nonstandard' English
Jenny Cheshire
6. This, that, yon: on 'three-dimensional' systems
Gunnel Melchers
7. Grammatical variation and the avoidance of stress clashes in Northern Low German
Günter Rohdenburg
8. Norms made easy: case marking with modal verbs in Finnish
Lea Laitinen
9. Articles and number in oral or close-to-oral varieties
Brigitte Schlieben-Lange
10. Proscribed collocations with shall and will: the eighteenth century (non-) standard reassessed
Leslie K. Arnovick
11. The genitives of the relative pronouns in present-day English
Aimo Sepp™nen
12. 'Ah'm going for to give youse a story today': remarks on second plural pronouns in Englishes
Susan Wright
13. Strengthening identity: differentiation and change in contemporary Galacian
Johannes Kabatek
14. Left dislocation in French: varieties, norm and usage
Alain Berrendonner and Marie-José Reichler-Béguelin
15. Dialect variation as a consequence of standardization
Dieter Wanner
16. The atternings of nonstandard syntax in German
Beate Henn-Memmesheimer
Contributors
Biography
Jenny Cheshire is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language variation and coversational narrative. Dieter Stein is Professor at Heinrich Heine University, Germany. His research interests include language development, language and communication in the internet, andthe linguistics of Hypertext.
