Language Variation

e include empirical studies of linguistic variation as well as its description, explanation and interpretation in structural, social and cognitive terms. Th e series will cover any relevant subdiscipline: sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, dialectology, historical linguistics, anthropology/anthropological linguistics. Th e emphasis will be on linguistic aspects and on the interaction between linguistic and extralinguistic aspects — not on extralinguistic aspects (including language ideology, policy etc.) as such. A new fi rst-person pronoun has emerged in the vernacular of Stockholm Swedish. A loan from Turkish, benim is indexically self-aggrandizing and a feature of the male genderlect of Stockholm’s racialized proletariat. It is also typologically unusual by virtue of being a loanword in an abstract functional role, namely, a pronoun. I detail several factors that, in concert, allowed benim to enter into Swedish fi rst as a naked prototype, then as a reanalysis of dissociative third-person constructions, and fi nally, as a productive fi rst-person personal pronoun. I conclude further that the actuation of these factors was the unique social ecology of class and racial exclusion, which are generally known to drive symbolic status-moves among the subordinated. In both cases is slang an important part of the variety, and in both cases words are borrowed from various substrate languages; in the case of Ekensnack from Romani, Månsing, 2 and various dialects; in the case of Rinkeby Swedish from Romani, Turkish, Greek, etc., in other words the minority languages in Rinkeby. (Kotsinas 1988b: 145, my translation) a wide range of language varieties, ranging from Dutch-Frisian contact The selection includes traditional quantitative and qualitative approaches to di ff erent types of linguistic variables, as well as state-of-the-art techniques for the analysis of speech sounds, new dialectometrical methods, covariation analysis, and a range of statistical methods. The on data from traditional sources such sociolinguistic interviews, speech corpora and newspapers, but and administrative well re-analyses of dialect atlas data and older of language variation