“Oh, they’re top, them”

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Where does the social stop? 13
5. The role of intonation in Austrian listeners’ perceptions of standard-dialect shifting 31
6. Hybridity and ethnic accents 43
7. A contact-linguistic view on Finland-Swedish quotatives vara , ‘be’, and att , ‘that’ 59
8. Quotations and quotatives in the speech of three Danish generations 71
9. The role of information structure in linguistic variation 83
10. “Oh, they’re top, them” 97
11. Changing the world vs. changing the mind 111
12. Variation in long-distance dependencies 123
13. Reconciling corpus and questionnaire data in microcomparative syntax 135
14. “Judge not lest ye be judged” 149
15. Corpus-based variation studies – A methodology 161
16. Dialect convergence across language boundaries 173
17. The role of morphology in phonological change 185
18. Spelling variants of the present participle in a selection of Northern English and Scots texts of the late 14th and the 15th centuries 201
19. Collocations, attitudes, and English loan words in Finnish 215
20. The variety and richness of words for relatives in Slovene 227
21. “A den of iniquity” or “The hotbed of civilization”? Urban areas as locations for linguistic studies in Norway 239
22. Index 255