Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. List of Contributors IX
5. List of Figures XIII
6. List of Tables XV
7. Introduction
8. On the development of a new standard norm in Italian 3
9. Part I: Restandardization tendencies
10. What is changing in Italian today? Phenomena of restandardization in syntax and morphology: an overview 31
11. Changes from below, changes from above: relative constructions in contemporary Italian 61
12. Everyone has an accent. Standard Italian and regional pronunciation 89
13. Evaluating regional variation in Italian: towards a change in standard language ideology? 118
14. Part II: Regional standards
15. How standard regional Italians set in: the case of standard Piedmontese Italian 145
16. Italian in Bozen/Bolzano: the formation of a ‘new dialect’ 176
17. Tuscan between standard and vernacular: a sociophonetic perspective 213
18. Contact between Italian and dialect in Sicily: the case of phrasal verb constructions 242
19. Part III: Crossing the borders
20. Anglicisms in Italian. Typologies of language contact phenomena with particular reference to word-formation processes 269
21. English loans in written Italian: a regional perspective 293
22. Italian in Switzerland: the dynamics of pluricentrism 321
23. Epilogue
24. The neo-standard of Italy and elsewhere in Europe 365
25. Index 375