Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Pursuing the cascade model 9
6. Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features in a local community 23
7. Systemic accomodation 39
8. New dialect formation 59
9. Variation and sound change in New Zealand English 69
10. An East Anglian in the South Atlantic? 81
11. Sociolinguistics of immigration 97
12. Why fuude is not 'food' and tschëgge is not 'check' 115
13. Parallel development and alternative restructuring 131
14. Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change 155
15. Changing mental maps and morphology 173
16. Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology 191
17. When is a sound change? 209
18. Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English 223
19. Social dimensions of syntactic variation 245
20. Language variation in Greece 263
21. A Norwegian adult language game, anti-language or secret code 275
22. Children and linguistic normativity 287
23. The virtue of the vernacular 299
24. The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties 311
25. Peter Trudgill's publications 327
26. Index 339