Diversity and diachrony
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Diversity and diachrony
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 53）
J. Benjamins, 1986
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A selection of papers, revised and updated, originally presented at the Twelfth Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, held at the Université de Montréal on Oct. 27-29, 1983
Includes bibliographies and index
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This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montreal 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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. Conributors
- 3. I. Varieties of English and their history
- 4. De facto segregation of black and white vernaculars (by Labov, William)
- 5. The use of the verbal -s Inflection in BEV (by Myhill, John)
- 6. Linguistic correlates of inter-ethnic contact (by Ash, Sharon)
- 7. Testing listeners' reactions to phonological markers of ethnic identity: a new method for sociolinguistic research (by Graff, David)
- 8. Of-Reduction in black English: A quantitative study (by Sanchez, Francisca)
- 9. Contrastive use of verbal -z in Slava Narratives (by Pitts, Walter)
- 10. More evidence for major vowel change change in the south (by Feagin, Crawford)
- 11. Variation and the study of Engllish historical syntax (by Rissanen, Matti)
- 12. The development of preverbal only in early modern English (by Nevalainen, Terttu)
- 13. On the use of the modal auxiliaries Can and May in American English (by Kyto, Merja)
- 14. Is there anadverbial in this text? (and if so, what is it doing there?) (by Tottie, Gunnel)
- 15. Syntactic development after childhood: beyond the vernacular (by Wald, Benji)
- 16. II. Change and avriation in romance
- 17. Going through (L) in Canadian French (by Poplack, Shana)
- 18. /S/ deletion and pronoun usage in Puerto Rican Spanish (by Hochberg, Judith G.)
- 19. La variation du /r/ dans l'espagnol de Santiago (by Alba, Orlando)
- 20. Changements en Chaine dans le francais montrealais (by Yaeger-Dror, Malcah)
- 21. Intonational variability in language contact. F0 Declination in Ontarian French (by Cichocki, Wladyslaw)
- 22. Functional and structural properties in a variable syntax (by Tarallo, Fernando)
- 23. Variation in case marking with infinitival and clausal complements (by Pearce, Elizabeth)
- 24. The social profile of a syntactico-semantic variable: three verb forms in old Castile (by Silva-Corvalan, Carmen)
- 25. Metrical structure and vowel deletion in Montreal French (by Cedergen, Henrietta J.)
- 26. Grammaticalisation des pronouns de la troisieme personne en francais parle a Montreal (by Thibault, Pierrette)
- 27. Variation linguistique: le cas des pronoms personnels du francais (by Deshaies, Denise)
- 28. Les expressions de la restriction en francais de Montreal (by Massicotte, France)
- 29. Formes connectives et cohesion textuelle dans le discours conversationnel d'enfants de differentes classes sociales dans le capitale mexicaine (by Williamson, Rodney)
- 30. Is child language a possible source of linguistic variation ? (by Mougeon, Raymond)
- 31. III. Functions of discourse
- 32. Linguistic analysis of the three kinds (by Fasold, Ralph W.)
- 33. Turn-initial variation: structure and function in conversation (by Schiffrin, Deborah)
- 34. Quantificateur et marqueur de discours (by Lemieux, Monique)
- 35. Toward a unified model of sociolinguistic prestige (by Finegan, Edward)
- 36. Cajun/English code-switching: a test of formal models (by Brown, Becky)
- 37. Factors affecting the form of question signals in American sign language (by Baker-Shenk, Charlotte)
- 38. Constituent-gap dependencies in Norwegian: an acceptable study (by Creider, Chet A.)
- 39. Author index
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