Towards a New Standard : Theoretical and Empirical Studies on the Restandardization of Italian / Massimo Cerruti, Claudia Crocco, Stefania Marzo.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- On the development of a new standard norm in Italian -- Part I: Restandardization tendencies -- What is changing in Italian today? Phenomena of restandardization in syntax and morphology: an overview -- Changes from below, changes from above: relative constructions in contemporary Italian -- Everyone has an accent. Standard Italian and regional pronunciation -- Evaluating regional variation in Italian: towards a change in standard language ideology? -- Part II: Regional standards -- How standard regional Italians set in: the case of standard Piedmontese Italian -- Italian in Bozen/Bolzano: the formation of a ‘new dialect’ -- Tuscan between standard and vernacular: a sociophonetic perspective -- Contact between Italian and dialect in Sicily: the case of phrasal verb constructions -- Part III: Crossing the borders -- Anglicisms in Italian. Typologies of language contact phenomena with particular reference to word-formation processes -- English loans in written Italian: a regional perspective -- Italian in Switzerland: the dynamics of pluricentrism -- Epilogue -- The neo-standard of Italy and elsewhere in Europe -- Index

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