Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface, Contributors ix
4. I. Varieties of English and their history
5. De facto segregation of black and white vernaculars 1
6. The use of the verbal -s Inflection in BEV 25
7. Linguistic correlates of inter-ethnic contact 33
8. Testing listeners’ reactions to phonological markers of ethnic identity 45
9. Of -Reduction in black English 59
10. Contrastive use of verbal -z in Slava Narratives 73
11. More evidence for major vowel change change in the south 83
12. Variation and the study of Engllish historical syntax 97
13. The development of preverbal only in early modern English 111
14. On the use of the modal auxiliaries Can and May in American English 123
15. Is there anadverbial in this text? (and if so, what is it doing there?) 139
16. Syntactic development after childhood 153
17. II. Change and avriation in romance
18. Going through (L) in Canadian French 173
19. /S/ deletion and pronoun usage in Puerto Rican Spanish 199
20. La variation du /r/ dans l’espagnol de Santiago 211
21. Changements en Chaîne dans le français montréalais 223
22. Intonational variability in language contact. F0 Declination in Ontarian French 239
23. Functional and structural properties in a variable syntax 249
24. Variation in case marking with infinitival and clausal complements 261
25. The social profile of a syntactico-semantic variable 279
26. Metrical structure and vowel deletion in Montreal French 293
27. Grammaticalisation des pronouns de la troisième personne en français parlé à Montréal 301
28. Variation linguistique 311
29. Les expressions de la restriction en français de Montréal 325
30. Formes connectives et cohésion textuelle dans le discours conversationnel d’enfants de différentes classes sociales dans le capitale mexicaine 333
31. Is child language a possible source of linguistic variation ? 347
32. III. Functions of discourse
33. Linguistic analysis of the three kinds 361
34. Turn-initial variation 367
35. Quantificateur et marqueur de discours 381
36. Toward a unified model of sociolinguistic prestige 391
37. Cajun/English code-switching 399
38. Factors affecting the form of question signals in American sign language 407
39. Constituent-gap dependencies in Norwegian 415
40. Author index 425