Bamberger Beitraege zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft / Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics Proceedings of Methods XIV

These papers from the 14th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, held at the University of Western Ontario in 2011, bring together methodological innovations and current research on the study of dialects and language variation, by new and established scholars from different countries working on a number of language varieties. This volume of papers from the 14th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, held at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2 to 6 August 2011, brings together recent methodological innovations and current research on the study of dialects and language variation. The research contributions are authored by a range of new and established scholars from different countries working on a number of languages and language varieties. The volume is divided into sections dealing with phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, ethnicity and identity, dialect cartography, methods, techniques as well as variation and change.