Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from September 2005

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from September 2005

Introduction. *.(typological sociolinguistics)
September 1, 2005... 1. Towards a typological sociolinguistics Is there any sense in pursuing a typological sociolinguistics? The idea recalls the relatively established field of linguistic typology, a comparison with which will provide an initial orientation...

Language, migration, and urbanization: the case of Bethlehem (1).
September 1, 2005... Abstract The town of Bethlehem provides a unique case for testing the relations between language, migration, and urbanization. This article explores one aspect of the complex Bethlehemite case. We intend to reveal how urbanization and...

Between accommodation and resistance: Upper Egyptian migrants in Cairo (1).
September 1, 2005... Abstract This article analyzes processes of dialectal accommodation among Upper Egyptian migrants in Cairo-Egypt. Rural and provincial migration have played an important role in the demographic growth of the capital from the mid-nineteenth...

Hierarchicalized matrices: codeswitching among urban Nigerian Arabs.
September 1, 2005... Abstract One of the most developed models for explaining bilingual constituents is the matrix language frame model (Myers-Scotton 1997). Its basic insight is that a bilingual constituent will be determined by the abstract structure...

Innovation diffusion: "Estuary English" and local dialect differentiation: the survival of Fenland Englishes (1).
September 1, 2005... Abstract In the literature on the spatial spread of linguistic innovations, traditional models of diffusion have been adopted largely uncritically from (economic) geography. The validity of geographical critiques of these traditional...

New towns and koineization: linguistic and social correlates *.
September 1, 2005... Abstract The establishment of new towns in the twentieth century in many parts of the world is a test bed of koineization, the type of language change that takes place when speakers of different, but mutually intelligible language...

Town and country: when dialect meets standard in urban environments: the case of Finland Swedish *.
September 1, 2005... Abstract Finland Swedish is the name of the specific variety of Swedish in Finland that is spoken in Finland today by about 300,000 people, mainly settled on the western and southern coasts and in the archipelago in the southwest. In the...

Publications received between 2 June 2004 and 1 May 2005.
September 1, 2005... The following list includes recent books potentially relevant to the traditional and/or allied disciplines of linguistics. An effort is made to see that all books of interest to the readers of Linguistics are reviewed. Publishers receive two...