Varieties in dialogue: Dialect use and change in rural Valdres, Norway

This dissertation is an investigation of the use, change, and status of the distinctive local dialect in rural Valdres, Norway. The Norwegian sociolinguistic situation has long been recognized as complicated by a protracted history of language planning and standardization, in which two competing wri...

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Main Author: Strand, Thea Randina
Other Authors: Hill, Jane H.
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194862