The elusive dialect border

D Smakman, M van der Meulen - Identity and Dialect Performance, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
… For example, language varieties do not always stop at political borders, such as is the case
… cross national borders, as is the case for the dialects that are part of the South Slavic dialect

Language Varieties Along the US-Mexican Border.

J Ornstein - 1969 - ERIC
the use of two languages or more still remains one of the most elusive phenomena to define,
since the … data emerges as unchanging as was often the case in traditional dialect atlases. …

The Elusive Borders of Regional Feeling: Re-Imagining the Federalist Map in Early West Germany

J DeWaal - European History Quarterly, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
… , did dialect borders, confession, or the settlement patterns of theThe Spessart mountain
chain directly east of the city formed a major dialect border within the entire Franconian dialect

Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities and Dialects

D Oram - 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… In the subsequent chapter, Dick Smakman and Marten van Meulen discuss the elusive
nature of dialect borders in contemporary society and present a range of border types for …

[HTML][HTML] Dialect areas and contact dialectology

P Jeszenszkya, A Hasseb, P Stöcklec - Language contact, 2023 - books.google.com
the notion of dialect area as the main topic and specify the aims of … elusive nature of data
that can be obtained. Even … Dialect borders-political regions are better predictors than economy …

What counts as a linguistic border, for whom, and with what implications? Exploring Occitan and Francoprovençal in Rhône-Alpes, France

M Bert, J Costa - Language, borders and identity, 2014 - degruyter.com
… : a) the northern border of Francoprovençal, b) the border between Occitan and … dialectal
border within Occitan, in the south of the region. Our first example concerns the northern border

[PDF][PDF] Marjatta Palander

H Riionheimo, V Koivisto - On the Border of Language and Dialect - library.oapen.org
dialect of Finnish, but the linguistic differences between the Finnish dialects and the Border
Karelian dialects drew the … language may be elusive, as the language idiolectally represents …

Vocabulary as an indicator of dialectal mapping: the case of isiZulu in KwaZulu-Natal

T Moyo - South African Journal of African Languages, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
… due to the increasingly elusive nature oflanguages today. This … The question of border
dialects, particularly in relation to … The central challenge for dialectologists today is elusive in …

The definition of the standard language: a survey in seven countries

D Smakman - International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2012 - degruyter.com
… Abstract: The definition of the standard language seems more elusive than that of the
dialect. … The border between the Romance and Germanic language families cuts (horizontally) …

The Changing Significanceof European Borders

L O'dowd - New borders for a changing Europe, 2004 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… economic location, its inhabitants shared a common German, Alemannic dialect. …
development has proved elusive. In fact, summarizing much recent research on Euroregions within …