Towards a New Standard: Theoretical and Empirical Studies on the Restandardization of Italian

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2017

Towards a New Standard

Theoretical and Empirical Studies on the Restandardization of Italian

Edited by: Massimo Cerruti , Claudia Crocco and Stefania Marzo

Volume 6 in the series Language and Social Life [LSL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518839

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About this book

In many European languages the National Standard Variety is converging with spoken, informal, and socially marked varieties. In Italian this process is giving rise to a new standard variety called Neo-standard Italian, which partly consists of regional features.
This book contributes to current research on standardization in Europe by offering a comprehensive overview of the re-standardization dynamics in Italian. Each chapter investigates a specific dynamic shaping the emergence of Neo-standard Italian and Regional Standard Varieties, such as the acceptance of previously non-standard features, the reception of Old Italian features excluded from the standard variety, the changing standard language ideology, the retention of features from Italo-Romance dialects, the standardization of patterns borrowed from English, and the developmental tendencies of standard Italian in Switzerland. The contributions investigate phonetic/phonological, prosodic, morphosyntactic, and lexical phenomena, addressed by several empirical methodologies and theoretical vantage points.
This work is of interest to scholars and students working on language variation and change, especially those focusing on standard languages and standardization dynamics.

Author / Editor information

Massimo Cerruti, University of Turin, Italy; Claudia Crocco, Ghent University, Belgium; Stefania Marzo, University of Leuven, Belgium.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XV
Introduction
On the development of a new standard norm in Italian Massimo Cerruti, Claudia Crocco and Stefania Marzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Part I: Restandardization tendencies
What is changing in Italian today? Phenomena of restandardization in syntax and morphology: an overview Gaetano Berruto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Changes from below, changes from above: relative constructions in contemporary Italian Massimo Cerruti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Everyone has an accent. Standard Italian and regional pronunciation Claudia Crocco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Evaluating regional variation in Italian: towards a change in standard language ideology? Stefano De Pascale, Stefania Marzo and Dirk Speelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Part II: Regional standards
How standard regional Italians set in: the case of standard Piedmontese Italian Riccardo Regis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Italian in Bozen/Bolzano: the formation of a ‘new dialect’ Alessandro Vietti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Tuscan between standard and vernacular: a sociophonetic perspective Silvia Calamai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Contact between Italian and dialect in Sicily: the case of phrasal verb constructions Luisa Amenta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
Part III: Crossing the borders
Anglicisms in Italian. Typologies of language contact phenomena with particular reference to word-formation processes Raffaella Bombi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
English loans in written Italian: a regional perspective Costanza Asnaghi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Italian in Switzerland: the dynamics of pluricentrism Elena Maria Pandolfi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Epilogue
The neo-standard of Italy and elsewhere in Europe Peter Auer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars interested in Language Change and Language Variation.
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 378
Keywords: Language Standardization; Dialect/Standard Convergence; Regional Standards; Contemporary Italian

eBook

Published: January 11, 2017
ISBN: 9781614518839

Hardcover

Published: January 11, 2017
ISBN: 9781614518884