Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Foreword IX
4. Introduction XVII
5. I. Language in Social and Historical Space
6. Introduction 3
7. 1. Political Power and Linguistic Inequality in Papua New Guinea 5
8. 2. Language Use in Multilingual Societies: Some Alternate Approaches 29
9. 3. A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence 47
10. 4. Above and Beyond Phonology in Variable Rules 81
11. 5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea 95
12. 6. Mutual Intelligibility, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Boundaries 133
13. 7. Wave Versus Stammbaum Explanations of Lexical Similarities 143
14. 8. Cognitive Variability and New Guinea Social Organization: the Buang Dgwa 153
15. 9. Quantitative Analysis of Sharing and Variability in a Cognitive Model 169
16. II. Studies of Particular Linguistic Variables
17. Introduction 193
18. 10. On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language 195
19. 11. The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives 211
20. 12. Variability and Explanation in Language and Culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin 257
21. 13. Anything You Can Do 271
22. 14. The Productive Use of ne in Spoken Montréal French 295
23. 15. The Alternation Between the Auxiliaries avoir and être in Montréal French 311
24. Bibliography 347
25. Indexes 365