Full Description
This new five-volume anthology of major works has been produced in consultation with an editorial advisory board of distinguished scholars. It brings together the key texts of language variation and change to provide a comprehensive collection that represents the field's development and showcases the diverse communities that have been the subjects of investigation.
Contents
Editor acknowledgements, Chronological table of reprinted chapters and articles, General introduction: a brief history of the study of language variation and change; Volume I Foundations and Methods: Part 1 Precursors 1 Louis Gauchat, proto-variationist 2 Social infuences on the choice of a linguistic variant Part 2 Theoretical principles 3 The linguistic variable as a structural unit 4 Variable rules: performance as a statistical refection of competence 5 A quantitative paradigm for the study of communicative competence Part 3 Foundational studies 6 Contraction, deletion, and inherent variability of the English copula 7 The relationship of white Southern speech to Vernacular Black English 8 'Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish y termino en español': toward a typology of codeswitching Part 4 Methods 9 Some principles of linguistic methodology 10 Delimiting the Sydney speech community 11 Identifying and interpreting variables 12 Defining the envelope of linguistic variation: the case of "don't count" forms in the copula analysis of African American Vernacular English 13 The quantitative paradigm contentions concerning the development of AAVE 28 Re-examining the development of African American English: evidence from isolated communities.
