Language variation-- European perspectives II

By International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (4th 2007 Nicosia, Cyprus)

Subjects: Linguistics, Congresses, General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Languages, Language and languages, Variation, Europe, languages

Description: This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), which was held at the University of Cyprus from June 17th-19th 2007. The variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives (from Generative Grammar, Word Grammar, Government Phonology, Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology to quantitative, Labovian and ethnographic approaches to variation and change, real and apparent time studies, phonetic analysis and metatheoretical papers on quantitative analysis), as well as the sheer number of linguistic vari.