What is it about?
This paper gives new insights in hyperdialectisms, i.e. typical dialect features that are distinctive from the standard language or neighboring dialects and, as a result from dialect loss and dialect change, are applied in grammatical contexts where they supposedly do not belong.
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Why is it important?
This paper finds that hyperdialectisms are not as new as the existing literature proposes, they have been around much longer, and adds nuance and depth to the theoretical concept of hyperdialectism.
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This page is a summary of: Hyperdialectisms revisited, Linguistics in the Netherlands, November 2023, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/avt.00078.dor.
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