Regional varieties of Italian in the linguistic repertoire
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Massimo Cerruti
Abstract
This paper focuses on regional Italian as a special observatory for both synchronic and diachronic variation in Italian. After a brief overview of some key concepts (Section 1) and the state of the art (Section 2), I consider regional Italian in a language-contact perspective (Section 3). In addition, I analyze it from the viewpoint of the reciprocal relationship between dimensions of linguistic variation (Section 4). The topics addressed here range from the process of language shift from Italo-Romance dialects toward Italian to the decreasing regional markedness of contemporary Italian. They therefore include issues related to native-like competence, ongoing restandardization, and developmental tendencies in Italian.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction
- Regional varieties of Italian in the linguistic repertoire
- Historical linguistic minorities: suggestions for classification and typology
- New linguistic minorities: repertoires, language maintenance and shift
- Italian and Italo-Romance dialects
- The declining status of Italian as a language of scientific communication and the issue of diglossia in scientific communities
- Language policy and ideology in Italy
- The Albanian dialects of Southern Italy: a tenuous survival
