Diversity and Diachrony

David Sankoff

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Diversity and Diachrony

David Sankoff

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Published/Copyright: 1986

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Volume 53 | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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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 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.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface, Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
I. Varieties of English and their history
De facto segregation of black and white vernaculars William Labov and Wendell A. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
The use of the verbal -s Inflection in BEV John Myhill and Wendell A. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Linguistic correlates of inter-ethnic contact Sharon Ash and John Myhill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
Testing listeners’ reactions to phonological markers of ethnic identity a new method for sociolinguistic research David Graff, William Labov and Wendell A. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
Of -Reduction in black English A quantitative study Francisca Sanchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
Contrastive use of verbal -z in Slava Narratives Walter Pitts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
More evidence for major vowel change change in the south Crawford Feagin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Variation and the study of Engllish historical syntax Matti Rissanen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
The development of preverbal only in early modern English Terttu Nevalainen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
On the use of the modal auxiliaries Can and May in American English Merja Kytö Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Is there anadverbial in this text? (and if so, what is it doing there?) Gunnel Tottie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Syntactic development after childhood beyond the vernacular Benji Wald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
II. Change and avriation in romance
Going through (L) in Canadian French Shana Poplack and Douglas C. Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
/S/ deletion and pronoun usage in Puerto Rican Spanish Judith G. Hochberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
La variation du /r/ dans l’espagnol de Santiago Orlando Alba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Changements en Chaîne dans le français montréalais Malcah Yaeger-Dror Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
Intonational variability in language contact. F0 Declination in Ontarian French Wladyslaw Cichocki and Daniel Lepetit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Functional and structural properties in a variable syntax Fernando Tarallo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
Variation in case marking with infinitival and clausal complements Elizabeth Pearce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
The social profile of a syntactico-semantic variable three verb forms in old Castile Carmen Silva-Corvalán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
Metrical structure and vowel deletion in Montreal French Henrietta J. Cedergen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Grammaticalisation des pronouns de la troisième personne en français parlé à Montréal Pierrette Thibault Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
Variation linguistique le cas des pronoms personnels du français Denise Deshaies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
Les expressions de la restriction en français de Montréal France Massicotte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	325
Formes connectives et cohésion textuelle dans le discours conversationnel d’enfants de différentes classes sociales dans le capitale mexicaine Rodney Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
Is child language a possible source of linguistic variation ? Raymond Mougeon, Édouard Beniak and Daniel Valois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
III. Functions of discourse
Linguistic analysis of the three kinds Ralph W. Fasold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
Turn-initial variation structure and function in conversation Deborah Schiffrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367
Quantificateur et marqueur de discours Monique Lemieux, Carmen Fontaine and David Sankoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
Toward a unified model of sociolinguistic prestige Edward Finegan and Douglas Biber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
Cajun/English code-switching a test of formal models Becky Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	399
Factors affecting the form of question signals in American sign language Charlotte Baker-Shenk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	407
Constituent-gap dependencies in Norwegian an acceptable study Chet A. Creider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425

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430

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.53

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Sociolinguistics and Dialectology; Theoretical linguistics; Historical linguistics

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