Language Variation - European Perspectives -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of Contents -- Twenty-five authors on twelve languages, sixteen language varieties, and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight speakers -- 1. Foreword: background -- 2. An overview -- 3. Overlap and complementarity in focus, research questions and approach -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Phrasal Verbs in Venetan and Regional Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The formal properties of phrasal verbs -- 3. The aspectual use of two Ps, fora "out" and su "up". -- 4. The distribution of phrasal verbs in the linguistic spectrum -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Regional variation in intonation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tonology of the nuclear rise-fall -- 3. Data and methods -- 4. Conversational functions of the Colognian nuclear rise-fall -- 5. Comparison with the nuclear rise-fall in Standard German -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Internal and external factors for clitic-shape variation in North-Eastern Catalan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data sources -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Distribution of VC and CV clitics -- 5. Data analysis -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- The native / non-native speaker distinction and the diversity of linguistic profiles of young people in Swedish multilingual urban contexts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definitions and uses of 'native speaker' (NS) within linguistics -- 3. Applying the concept of native speaker in a contemporary multilingual context -- 4. Concluding discussion -- References -- Language acquisition in a multilingual society -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The pilot study -- 3. Findings -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Regional accent in the German language area -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Point of departure -- 3. The 'Regional accent in the German language area' project.

4. Pilot study: How dialectally do German police answer emergency calls? -- 5. Prospects -- References -- Sustainable Linguicism -- 1. On linguicism and standard language ideology in Hungary* -- 2. The Hungarian National Sociolinguistic Survey (HNSS) -- 3. The linguistic variables in this study -- 4. The independent social variables -- 5. Standard Hungarian ideology and its targets -- 6. Learnability -- 7. Multi-generational effects in second-dialect acquisition -- 8. The effects of educational mobility -- 9. How to officially ratify societal prejudice -- 10. Linguicism at its worst -- 11. Teachers -- 12. Conclusions -- References -- Phonetic variation in Tyneside -- 1. Exploratory multivariate analysis -- 2. The NECTE data -- 3. Hierarchical cluster analysis of the TLS phonetic transcriptions -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Production and judgment in childhood -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Stereotypes and /n/ variation in Patra, Greece -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background information -- 3. Description of the variation -- 4. An OT account of the variation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Modelling linguistic change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. The trajectory of the future variants throughout the Portuguese grammatical tradition -- 4. A variationist perspective on the alternation among SF, HP, P and IR -- 5. Results -- 6. The transition period in language change -- References -- The role of linguistic factors in the process of second dialect acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Location, informants and questionnaire -- 3. Intersystemic correspondences -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Folk views on linguistic variation and identities in the Belarusian-Russian borderland -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The language situation in Belarus -- 3. Region and respondents.

4. Perceptions and categorizations of linguistic phenomena and differences -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Appendix: interview extract -- Polarisation revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Polarisation -- 3. Some Flemish cases of polarisation -- 4. Kleit vs. Landegem -- 5. Polarisation revisited -- 6. To conclude -- References -- Ethnicity as a source of changes in the London vowel system -- 1. The short vowel systems in London and south-east England -- 2. The London localities and recordings -- 3. Method of analysis -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- References -- Levelling, koineization and their implications for bidialectism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Levelling, koineization and register variation -- 3. Levels of language use -- 4. On diglossia and bidialectism -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Subject index.