Publications
Rickford, John R. 2016. Labov's contributions to the study of African American Vernacular English: Pursuing linguistic and social equity. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20 (4) : 561–580.
Rickford, John R. 2010. The sociolinguistics of a short-lived innovation: Tracing the development of quotative all across spoken and internet newsgroup data. Language Variation and Change 22 (2) : 191–219.
Rickford, John R., ed. 2004. Language in the USA. Themes for the Twenty-first Century. Cambridge University Press.
Rickford, John R. 1987. The haves and have nots: Sociolinguistic surveys and the assessment of speaker competences. Language in Society 16 (1) : 149–177.
Rickford, John R. 1986. Social contact and linguistic diffusion: Hiberno-English and New World Black English. Language 62 (2) : 245–289.