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multiethnolectal en · ADJ

Etymology

From multi- + ethnolectal.

Meanings

1. Relating to a multiethnolect.
   • The results suggest that the quotative system in contemporary multiethnolectal Bernese German is shaped by a range of social and linguistic constraints, such as the presence or absence of quotative marker so, presence or absence of a quotative verb, presence or absence of a subject, speaker gender and speaker ethnicity. 2019, Christa Schneider, Sarah Grossenbacher, David Britain, “Quotative variation in Bernese Swiss German”, in Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Díaz-Montesinos, Antonio-Manuel Ávila-Muñoz, Matilde Vida-Castro Amsterdam, editors, Language Variation – European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, page 191:
   • For instance, some speakers of Danish ethnic majority background are frequent users of multiethnolectal features, and some speakers with minority ethnic background never use these features as part of their repertoire. 2010, Pia Quist, “The Sociolinguistic Study of Youth and Multilingual Practices in Denmark: An Overview”, in Pia Quist, Bente A. Svendsen, editors, Multilingual Urban Scandinavia: New Linguistic Practices, Bristol: Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 9:
   • In the phrase 'ida(g) vi lovade' (today we promised), typical Scanian intonation would gradually decline across the phrase and include two peaks and troughs. In the multiethnolectal style, declination was often absent. Additionally, three contours occur in the multiethnolectal phrase instead of two in the standard. 2019, Nathan Joel Young, Rhythm in late-modern Stockholm: Social stratification and stylistic variation in the speech of men, BOOKS on DEMAND, →ISBN, page 102:
   • The multiethnolectal urban contact dialects that can emerge under such favorable conditions, can take on two different forms: they can constitute multilingual mixed languages that integrate different contact languages, or new vernaculars of a majority language of the larger society. 2020, Heike Wiese, “Contact in the City”, in Raymond Hickey, editor, The Handbook of Language Contact, second edition, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, →ISBN, page 264:

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