Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Clefts in Cypriot Greek 13
5. Lexical change, discourse practices and the French press 27
6. Arbitrary subjects of infinitival clauses in European and Brazilian Portuguese 47
7. Modal verbs in long verb clusters 59
8. Changing pronominal gender in Dutch 71
9. Meaning variation and change in Greek morphology 81
10. Syntactic variation in German-English code-mixing 91
11. Sources of phonological variation in a large database for Dutch dialects 103
12. Broad vs. localistic dialectology, standard vs. dialect 119
13. Intonational variation in Swiss German 135
14. Morphological reduction in Aromanian 145
15. Greek dialect variation 157
16. Using electronic corpora to study language variation 169
17. Language attitudes and folk perceptions towards linguistic variation 179
18. Salience and resilience in a set of Tyneside English shibboleths 191
19. New approaches to describing phonological change 205
20. Variation and grammaticisation 215
21. Towards establishing the matrix language in Russian-Estonian code-switching 225
22. Index 241