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New collective volume entitled Intermediate Language Varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe co-edited by Associate Professor Stavroula Tsiplakou

 

 

 

 

 

Stavroula Tsiplakou, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Academic Coordinator of the MA Programme in “Greek Language and Linguistics” of the Open University of Cyprus has co-edited a new collective volume entitled Intermediate Language Varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe.  

The papers in this collective volume, published in English by the John Benjamins Publishing Company, and co-edited by Massimo Cerruti (University of Turin), address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the ‘dialect-standard’ landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different languages (Norwegian, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek), on speech communities with different (geo)political and sociolinguistic histories, as well as on previously unexplored sociolinguistic situations. The contributions all share the twin characteristics of (a) robust scrutiny of structural variation and its links to both structural-systemic parameters and extra linguistic variables and (b) nuanced ap­proaches to macro- and micro- level categories, with the requisite theoretical and method­ological fine-tuning. The data and analyses presented yield a firmer and more nuanced understanding of the dynamic permutations of cross-dialectal and dialect-to-standard convergence and the formation of intermediate varieties in different yet comparable contexts.

[Studies in Language Variation, 24]  2020.  vi, 258 pp.

Handbound: ISBN 9789027205414

eBook: ISBN 9789027261335

 

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