Diversity and Diachrony
This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2. Change and variation in Romance; 3. Functions and discourse.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 53] 1986. xii, 430 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. ix
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Conributors | pp. ix–xi
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I. Varieties of English and their history
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De facto segregation of black and white vernacularsWilliam Labov and Wendell A. Harris | pp. 1–24
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The use of the verbal -s Inflection in BEVJohn Myhill and Wendell A. Harris | pp. 25–31
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Linguistic correlates of inter-ethnic contactSharon Ash and John Myhill | pp. 33–44
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Testing listeners’ reactions to phonological markers of ethnic identity: a new method for sociolinguistic researchDavid Graff, William Labov and Wendell A. Harris | pp. 45–58
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Of-Reduction in black English: A quantitative studyFrancisca Sanchez | pp. 59–72
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Contrastive use of verbal -z in Slava NarrativesWalter Pitts | pp. 73–82
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More evidence for major vowel change change in the southCrawford Feagin | pp. 83–95
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Variation and the study of Engllish historical syntaxMatti Rissanen | pp. 97–109
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The development of preverbal only in early modern EnglishTerttu Nevalainen | pp. 111–121
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On the use of the modal auxiliaries Can and May in American EnglishMerja Kytö | pp. 123–138
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Is there anadverbial in this text? (and if so, what is it doing there?)Gunnel Tottie | pp. 139–152
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Syntactic development after childhood: beyond the vernacularBenji Wald | pp. 153–170
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II. Change and avriation in romance
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Going through (L) in Canadian FrenchShana Poplack and Douglas C. Walker | pp. 173–198
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/S/ deletion and pronoun usage in Puerto Rican SpanishJudith G. Hochberg | pp. 199–210
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La variation du /r/ dans l’espagnol de SantiagoOrlando Alba | pp. 211–222
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Changements en Chaîne dans le français montréalaisMalcah Yaeger-Dror | pp. 223–238
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Intonational variability in language contact. F0 Declination in Ontarian FrenchWladyslaw Cichocki and Daniel Lepetit | pp. 239–247
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Functional and structural properties in a variable syntaxFernando Tarallo | pp. 249–260
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Variation in case marking with infinitival and clausal complementsElizabeth Pearce | pp. 261–277
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The social profile of a syntactico-semantic variable: three verb forms in old CastileCarmen Silva-Corvalán | pp. 279–292
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Metrical structure and vowel deletion in Montreal FrenchHenrietta J. Cedergen | pp. 293–300
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Grammaticalisation des pronouns de la troisième personne en français parlé à MontréalPierrette Thibault | pp. 301–310
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Variation linguistique: le cas des pronoms personnels du françaisDenise Deshaies | pp. 311–323
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Les expressions de la restriction en français de MontréalFrance Massicotte | pp. 325–332
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Formes connectives et cohésion textuelle dans le discours conversationnel d’enfants de différentes classes sociales dans le capitale mexicaineRodney Williamson | pp. 333–346
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Is child language a possible source of linguistic variation ?Raymond Mougeon, Édouard Beniak and Daniel Valois | pp. 347–358
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III. Functions of discourse
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Linguistic analysis of the three kindsRalph W. Fasold | pp. 361–366
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Turn-initial variation: structure and function in conversationDeborah Schiffrin | pp. 367–380
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Quantificateur et marqueur de discoursMonique Lemieux, Carmen Fontaine and David Sankoff | pp. 381–390
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Toward a unified model of sociolinguistic prestigeEdward Finegan and Douglas Biber | pp. 391–397
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Cajun/English code-switching: a test of formal modelsBecky Brown | pp. 399–406
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Factors affecting the form of question signals in American sign languageCharlotte Baker-Shenk | pp. 407–414
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Constituent-gap dependencies in Norwegian: an acceptable studyChet A. Creider | pp. 415–424
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Author index | pp. 425–430
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General