Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Part 1: Sociosyntactic theory
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. 2 Sociosyntax and the weight of the linguistic within sociolinguistics 25
6. 3 Spelling out grammatical variation 59
7. Part 2: Sociosyntactic evidence
8. 4 Comparative relativizers in American English: A puzzle from the margins of like 97
9. 5 Variation and the English participle/preterite relation 125
10. 6 Constructing syntactic dialect maps of American English 163
11. Part 3: Sociosyntactic approaches
12. 7 “People widnae understand that, wint they no?”: Negative anchor tag questions in northern British Englishes 193
13. 8 A snapshot of the emerging because-X construction 227
14. 9 Polish newcomers acquiring questions and questioning in a local dialect 257
15. Index