edited by Nicole Delbecque, Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Geeraerts
New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
c2005
vi, 345 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
163
Includes bibliographical references and index
Europe's sociolinguistic unity, or, a typology of European dialect/standard constellations / Peter Auer -- From phonetic similarity to dialect classification / Paul Heggarty, April McMahon and Robert McMahon -- Inflectional variation in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch / José Tummers, Dirk Speelman, and Dirk Geeraerts -- Interdialectal convergence between West-Flemish urban dialects / Reinhild Vandekerckhove -- Substitutions in epistolary forms of address in the seventeenth century Dutch standard variety / Arjan van Leuvensteijn -- Love in words / Heli Tissari -- On the role of semasiological profiles in merger discontinuations / Clara Molina -- The anger is heat question / Caroline Gevaert -- Development and motivation of marked plural forms in German / Heide Wegener -- Not arbitrary, not regular / Marcin Kilarski and Grzegorz Krynicki -- Future time reference--English and Dutch compared / Griet Beheydt -- Cleft constructions in French and Spanish / Katleen Van den Steen -- How to express indifference in Germanic / Torsten Leuchner -- The lexicalization of speech act evaluations in German, English and Dutch / Gisela Harras and Kristel Proost