Language Change and Variation
Editors
| Georgetown University
| Georgetown University
The study of language variation in social context continues to hold the attention of a large number of linguists. This research is promoted by the annual colloquia on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English' (NWAVE). This volume is a selection of revised papers from the NWAVE XI, held at Georgetown University. It deals with a number of items, some of which have often been discussed, others that have been less emphasized. The first group of articles in the volume center on a frequent theme: speech communities as the essential setting for understanding variation in language. Earlier work in linguistic variation dealt for the most part with phonological variation and change. Syntactic and morphological change and variation in syntax are also discussed. A selection on the role of variation in understanding first language acquisition comprises three papers. Articles in the last section of the volume concern theoretical controversy and methodological advances.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 52] 1989. viii, 450 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Variation in speech communities
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The exact description of a speech community: Short a in PhiladelphiaWilliam Labov | p. 1
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Patterned symmetry of shifting and lengthened vowels in the Montreal French Vernacular (MFV)Malcah Yaeger-Dror | p. 59
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New results on Montreal French /r/Cl. Tousignant and David Sankoff | p. 85
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Is urban influence VARB-able?Ann H. Pitts | p. 95
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Montreal French: Language, class and ideologyDavid Sankoff, Henrietta J. Cedergren, W. Kemp, Paul J. Thibault and Diane Vincent | p. 107
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Social determinants of the use of English in SwedenH. Ljung | p. 119
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Syntactic and morphological change
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Function and grammar in the history of English: Periphrastic doAnthony S. Kroch | p. 133
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The English gerund: Syntactic change and discourse functionA. Houston | p. 173
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Morphological productivity word frequency, and the Oxford English DictionaryF. Anshen and Mark Aronoff | p. 197
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Syntactic variation
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Syntactization in language development: Clause status variationB. Wald | p. 203
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Choosing between that and itMichael Montgomery | p. 241
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Inside and outside relative clauses: Pronominal redundancy in PortugueseFernando Tarallo | p. 255
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Variation in language development
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Addressing new questions about Black children’s languageIda J. Stockman and F. Vaughn-Cooke | p. 275
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Structural variability in phonological development: Final nasals in Vernacular Black EnglishWalt Wolfram | p. 301
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The development of syntactic complexity in narrative, informative and argumentative discourseL. Dubuisson, Louisette Emirkanian and David Sankoff | p. 333
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Controversies and methods in the study of linguistic variation
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Some problems in defining syntactic variables: The case of WH questions in Montreal FrenchClaire Lefebvre | p. 351
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A closer look at some so-called variable processesAlan Ford | p. 367
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Some approaches to syntactic variationS. Jacobson | p. 381
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A versatile program for the analysis of sociolinguistic dataP. Rousseau | p. 395
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The care and handling of a mega-corpus: The Ottawa-Hull French projectShana Poplack | p. 411
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2014. Structural change in Catalan discourse.
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2020.
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BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General