The articles collected in this volume offer the most various access to the discussed questions on norm and variation. In their entirety, they reflect the curren

The aim of the volume is to bridge the 'cultural gap' between sociolinguistics and theoretical linguistics in the study of variation. The various contributions

The book treats different aspects of language norms. One focus is on standardization and language policy. Other contributions investigate the construction of L2

Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known about the morphological and synt