Diversity and Diachrony

David Sankoff

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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.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 53] 1986. xii, 430 pp.

Publishing status: Available

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

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Conributors	ix–xi
I. Varieties of English and their history
De facto segregation of black and white vernaculars William Labov and Wendell A. Harris	1–24
The use of the verbal -s Inflection in BEV John Myhill and Wendell A. Harris	25–31
Linguistic correlates of inter-ethnic contact Sharon Ash and John Myhill	33–44
Testing listeners’ reactions to phonological markers of ethnic identity: a new method for sociolinguistic research David Graff, William Labov and Wendell A. Harris	45–58
Of-Reduction in black English: A quantitative study Francisca Sanchez	59–72
Contrastive use of verbal -z in Slava Narratives Walter Pitts	73–82
More evidence for major vowel change change in the south Crawford Feagin	83–95
Variation and the study of Engllish historical syntax Matti Rissanen	97–109
The development of preverbal only in early modern English Terttu Nevalainen	111–121
On the use of the modal auxiliaries Can and May in American English Merja Kytö	123–138
Is there anadverbial in this text? (and if so, what is it doing there?) Gunnel Tottie	139–152
Syntactic development after childhood: beyond the vernacular Benji Wald	153–170
II. Change and avriation in romance
Going through (L) in Canadian French Shana Poplack and Douglas C. Walker	173–198
/S/ deletion and pronoun usage in Puerto Rican Spanish Judith G. Hochberg	199–210
La variation du /r/ dans l’espagnol de Santiago Orlando Alba	211–222
Changements en Chaîne dans le français montréalais Malcah Yaeger-Dror	223–238
Intonational variability in language contact. F0 Declination in Ontarian French Wladyslaw Cichocki and Daniel Lepetit	239–247
Functional and structural properties in a variable syntax Fernando Tarallo	249–260
Variation in case marking with infinitival and clausal complements Elizabeth Pearce	261–277
The social profile of a syntactico-semantic variable: three verb forms in old Castile Carmen Silva-Corvalán	279–292
Metrical structure and vowel deletion in Montreal French Henrietta J. Cedergen	293–300
Grammaticalisation des pronouns de la troisième personne en français parlé à Montréal Pierrette Thibault	301–310
Variation linguistique: le cas des pronoms personnels du français Denise Deshaies	311–323
Les expressions de la restriction en français de Montréal France Massicotte	325–332
Formes connectives et cohésion textuelle dans le discours conversationnel d’enfants de différentes classes sociales dans le capitale mexicaine Rodney Williamson	333–346
Is child language a possible source of linguistic variation ? Raymond Mougeon, Édouard Beniak and Daniel Valois	347–358
III. Functions of discourse
Linguistic analysis of the three kinds Ralph W. Fasold	361–366
Turn-initial variation: structure and function in conversation Deborah Schiffrin	367–380
Quantificateur et marqueur de discours Monique Lemieux, Carmen Fontaine and David Sankoff	381–390
Toward a unified model of sociolinguistic prestige Edward Finegan and Douglas Biber	391–397
Cajun/English code-switching: a test of formal models Becky Brown	399–406
Factors affecting the form of question signals in American sign language Charlotte Baker-Shenk	407–414
Constituent-gap dependencies in Norwegian: an acceptable study Chet A. Creider	415–424
Author index	425–430

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Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Theoretical linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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