37. The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rhine (MRhSA): A study on the emergence and spread of regional dialects

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xvii
3. I. Introduction: Language and space
4. 1. Language and geographical space 1
5. 2. Language and social spaces 18
6. 3. Language and political spaces 33
7. 4. Language and transnational spaces 50
8. II. Linguistic approaches to space
9. 5. Language and space: The neogrammarian tradition 70
10. 6. Language and space: Traditional dialect geography 87
11. 7. Language and Space: The kulturmorphologische Ansatz in dialectology and the German language space ideology, 1920–1960 107
12. 8. Language and space: Structuralist and generative approaches 125
13. 9. Language and space: The variationist approach 142
14. 10. Who’s there? Language and space in social anthropology and interactional sociolinguistics 163
15. 11. Language, space and the folk 179
16. 12. Language and space: The linguistic dynamics approach 201
17. III. Structure and dynamics of a language space
18. 13. Identifing dimensions of linguistic variation in a language space 226
19. 14. Horizontal convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space 241
20. 15. Vertical convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space 259
21. 16. Divergence of linguistic varieties in a language space 275
22. 17. Emergence of varieties through restructuring and reevaluation 295
23. 18. Urban and rural language 315
24. 19. Discontinuous language spaces (Sprachinseln) 332
25. 20. Linguistic stability in a language space 355
26. 21. Old minorities within a language space 375
27. IV. Structure and dynamics across language spaces
28. 22. Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale 391
29. 23. Areal language typology 419
30. 24. The consequences of migration and colonialism I: Pidgins and creoles 440
31. 25. The consequences of migration and colonialism II: Overseas varieties 451
32. 26. The consequences of migration and colonialism III: New minorities 468
33. 27. Non-convergence despite language contact 478
34. V. Data collection and corpus-building
35. 28. Investigating language in space: Methods and empirical standards 494
36. 29. Investigating language in space: Questionnaire and interview 512
37. 30. Investigating language in space: Experimental techniques 528
38. VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results
39. 31. Measuring dialect differences 550
40. 32. Linguistic atlases - traditional and modern 567
41. 33. Dialect dictionaries - traditional and modern 592
42. 34. Community-based investigations: From traditional dialect grammar to sociolinguistic studies 613
43. VII. Exemplary studies
44. 35. Untying the language-body-place connection: A study on linguistic variation and social style in a Copenhagen community of practice 632
45. 36. A study on areal diffusion 649
46. 37. The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rhine (MRhSA): A study on the emergence and spread of regional dialects 668
47. 38. Challenging the homogeneity assumption in language variation analysis: Findings from a study of multilingual urban spaces 686
48. 39. Variety complexes in contact: A study on Uruguayan and Brazilian Fronterizo 706
49. 40. Language as a process: A study on transnational spaces 724
50. 41. The study of language and space in media discourse 740
51. VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems
52. 42. Areal variation in segmental phonetics and phonology 760
53. 43. Areal variation in prosody 786
54. 44. Areal variation in morphology 804
55. 45. Lexical variation in space 821
56. 46. Areal variation in syntax 837
57. 47. Areal variation and discourse 865
58. Backmatter 879