Regional varieties of Italian in the linguistic repertoire

• Cerruti, Massimo ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Turin

     University of Turin

     Torino, Italia

     
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 210, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Italian Sociolinguistics: Twenty years on), págs. 9-28
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1515/ijsl.2011.028
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  • This paper focuses on regional Italian as a special observatory for both synchronic and diachronic variation in Italian. After a brief overview of some key concepts (Section 1) and the state of the art (Section 2), I consider regional Italian in a language-contact perspective (Section 3). In addition, I analyze it from the viewpoint of the reciprocal relationship between dimensions of linguistic variation (Section 4). The topics addressed here range from the process of language shift from Italo-Romance dialects toward Italian to the decreasing regional markedness of contemporary Italian. They therefore include issues related to native-like competence, ongoing restandardization, and developmental tendencies in Italian.