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Towards a New Standard

Theoretical and Empirical Studies on the Restandardization of Italian
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Published/Copyright: 2017
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In many European languages the National Standard Variety is converging with spoken, informal, and socially marked varieties. In Italian this process is giving rise to a new standard variety called Neo-standard Italian, which partly consists of regional features.
This book contributes to current research on standardization in Europe by offering a comprehensive overview of the re-standardization dynamics in Italian. Each chapter investigates a specific dynamic shaping the emergence of Neo-standard Italian and Regional Standard Varieties, such as the acceptance of previously non-standard features, the reception of Old Italian features excluded from the standard variety, the changing standard language ideology, the retention of features from Italo-Romance dialects, the standardization of patterns borrowed from English, and the developmental tendencies of standard Italian in Switzerland. The contributions investigate phonetic/phonological, prosodic, morphosyntactic, and lexical phenomena, addressed by several empirical methodologies and theoretical vantage points.
This work is of interest to scholars and students working on language variation and change, especially those focusing on standard languages and standardization dynamics.

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Massimo Cerruti, University of Turin, Italy; Claudia Crocco, Ghent University, Belgium; Stefania Marzo, University of Leuven, Belgium.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

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    List of Contributors

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    List of Figures

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    List of Tables

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  • Introduction
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    On the development of a new standard norm in Italian

    3
    Massimo Cerruti, Claudia Crocco and Stefania Marzo
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  • Part I: Restandardization tendencies
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    What is changing in Italian today? Phenomena of restandardization in syntax and morphology: an overview

    31
    Gaetano Berruto
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    Changes from below, changes from above: relative constructions in contemporary Italian

    61
    Massimo Cerruti
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    Everyone has an accent. Standard Italian and regional pronunciation

    89
    Claudia Crocco
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    Evaluating regional variation in Italian: towards a change in standard language ideology?

    118
    Stefano De Pascale, Stefania Marzo and Dirk Speelman
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  • Part II: Regional standards
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    How standard regional Italians set in: the case of standard Piedmontese Italian

    145
    Riccardo Regis
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    Italian in Bozen/Bolzano: the formation of a ‘new dialect’

    176
    Alessandro Vietti
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    Tuscan between standard and vernacular: a sociophonetic perspective

    213
    Silvia Calamai
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    Contact between Italian and dialect in Sicily: the case of phrasal verb constructions

    242
    Luisa Amenta
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  • Part III: Crossing the borders
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    Anglicisms in Italian. Typologies of language contact phenomena with particular reference to word-formation processes

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    Raffaella Bombi
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    English loans in written Italian: a regional perspective

    293
    Costanza Asnaghi
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    Italian in Switzerland: the dynamics of pluricentrism

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    Elena Maria Pandolfi
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  • Epilogue
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    The neo-standard of Italy and elsewhere in Europe

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    Peter Auer
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    Index

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518839
eBook ISBN: 9781614518839
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Keywords for this book
Language Standardization; Dialect/Standard Convergence; Regional Standards; Contemporary Italian
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Scholars interested in Language Change and Language Variation.
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