This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of Malaga (Spain), from June 6 to 9, 2017. The volume includes plenaries by Manuel Almeida (Language hybridism: On the origin of interdialectal forms) and Frans Hinskens (Of clocks, clouds and sound change). In addition, the editors have selected 13 papers encompassing different languages and language varieties not only from large language families, such as Romance and Germanic, but also small language families, like Greek, or smaller languages, like Croatian and covering a large range of topics on sociolinguistics and linguistic variation. The book displays a contemporary picture of the research currently being conducted on language variation and change in European languages. Readers interested in every field related to language and language use will enjoy a wide variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives on speech variation, historical sociolinguistics and foreign language acquisition and learning.
