marco@work - Language contact effects and the emergence of intermediate syntactic variants

Language contact effects and the emergence of intermediate syntactic variants door Leonie Cornips maakt deel uit van het studiemateriaal bij de cursus Syntactic variation die wordt gegeven door Leonie Cornips in het kader van de LOT Winter School 2004.

From conclusion:
"In this paper, issues related to the use of acceptability judgements have been explored. [...] acceptability judgements do not provide a direct window into an individual's competence. One way to diminish the mismatches playing in judging vernacular forms as (un)acceptable, is to take into account several proper empirical methods. [...] The knowledge about a specific speech repertoire is of extreme importance to minimize the risk that we information is obtained about the prestige variety while the aim is to inquire speakers about their vernacular forms. I have discussed the so-called intermediate speech repertoire in detail by means of a regional standard 'intermediate' variety and the local dialects in the southern part of the province of Limburg in the south of The Netherlands."