This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the
concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study of World Englishes, which expressly …

In this chapter, I outline the development of some of the most widely used models of
standardization and consider the extent to which they are able to account for the …

Heritage languages have received considerable attention from linguists coming from
different subfields, because of their structural properties as well as for the salient …

This monograph is the first large-scale corpus analysis of French il ya clefts. While most
research on clefts focusses on the English 'prototypical'it-cleft and its equivalents across …

The linguistic study of regional speech forms in the sense of “dialect” has received much
less attention in European dialectology and sociolinguistics than research on the traditional …

In questo contributo si discute, con attenzione a aspetti teorici e empirici, la nozione di
italiano neo-standard nel quadro sociolinguistico contemporaneo. Dopo aver introdotto di …

Standardology is the study of linguistic standardization. The purpose of this introduction is
twofold: on the one hand, it explains the roots and traditions of this linguistic discipline by …

This study is concerned with the coherence of a newly-emerged standard variety of Italian,
ie, the so-called neo-standard Italian, as compared with the traditional standard variety. Our …

10 affricate dentali da parte degli italofoni nella città di Bolzano, capoluogo dell'Alto
Adige/Südtirol. Il lavoro presenta diversi elementi di innovatività legati in primo luogo alla …

The paper returns to the complex question of the sociolinguistic history of Italy during the
Renaissance. The traditional historiography of the Italian language adopts a teleological …