Change in the perception of language varieties

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. List of participants VII
4. The dangers of dialect parochialism: the Scottish vowel length rule 1
5. Remarks on the question of dialects in Old Irish 23
6. Center and periphery: adoption, diffusion, and spread 39
7. Syntactic change in Finnish dialects 85
8. What is in a name? 111
9. Propositions for the study of Old French and its dialects 139
10. Dialects wanting homes: a numerical approach to the early varieties of Coptic 149
11. Stylistic dialects in Fox linguistic change 193
12. The study of Early Modern English variation — the Cinderella of English historical linguistics? 211
13. The unnaturalness of naturalness 229
14. A lost Middle English dialect 235
15. The phonological incorporation of Spanish into Mexicano (Nahuatl) 273
16. Historical implications of a dialectological approach to convergence 283
17. Social dialect influence in language change: the halting of a sound change in Oslo Norwegian 329
18. The importance of dialectology for a new look at Romance linguistic history 337
19. Bartoli's second "norm" 349
20. Ladin and other relic language forms in the eastern Alpine region 357
21. The actuation problem for gender change in Wessex versus Newfoundland 377
22. On the state and possible aims of Middle English word geography 397
23. Dialectology in historical grammar 417
24. The relative WHAT: two kinds of evidence 443
25. Change in the perception of language varieties 475
26. Formation and evolution of the feminine and masculine nominative singular nouns in Old French la maison(s) and li charbons 505
27. On the role of dialect contact and interdialect in linguistic change 547
28. The history of voicing of initial fricatives in Southern England: a case of conflict between regional and social dialect 565
29. Old English glossaries and dialectology 601
30. The phonology of South-Western English 1500-1700 609
31. Die Vokalentwicklungen des Neiderländisch- Schlesischen in strukturgeographischstrukturhistorischer Sicht 645
32. Metaphors in dialectological diction. A critical note 679
33. Index of names 687