Contents

Preface

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

On the development of a new standard norm in Italian

Part I: Restandardization tendencies

What is changing in Italian today? Phenomena of restandardization in syntax and morphology: an overview

Changes from below, changes from above: relative constructions in contemporary Italian

Everyone has an accent. Standard Italian and regional pronunciation

Evaluating regional variation in Italian: towards a change in standard language ideology?

Part II: Regional standards

How standard regional Italians set in: the case of standard Piedmontese Italian

Italian in Bozen/Bolzano: the formation of a ‘new dialect’

Tuscan between standard and vernacular: a sociophonetic perspective

Contact between Italian and dialect in Sicily: the case of phrasal verb constructions

Part III: Crossing the borders

Anglicisms in Italian. Typologies of language contact phenomena with particular reference to word-formation processes

English loans in written Italian: a regional perspective

Italian in Switzerland: the dynamics of pluricentrism

Epilogue

The neo-standard of Italy and elsewhere in Europe

Index