This book for the first time reconstructs in a single theoretical framework the more important approaches to linguistic variation found in areas as different as

This book for the first time reconstructs in a single theoretical framework the more important approaches to linguistic variation found in areas as different as

The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the key goals of sociolinguistics. Until now, however, the

This volume explores how the patterning of surface variation can shed light on the grammatical representation of variable phenomena. The authors explore variati

With the permission of a North Carolina court, more than 150 hours of courtroom speech were recorded for this study. These tapes provided a rich archive for a v