Language Variation and Change

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 espanol': 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.