Language Change and Variation (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

Fasold, Ralph W. And Deborah Schiffrin, Eds.

ISBN 10: 9027235465 / ISBN 13: 9789027235466

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1989

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Title: Language Change and Variation (Current ...

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition.

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The study of language variation in social context continues to hold the attention of a large number of linguists. This research is promoted by the annual colloquia on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English' (NWAVE). This volume is a selection of revised papers from the NWAVE XI, held at Georgetown University. It deals with a number of items, some of which have often been discussed, others that have been less emphasized. The first group of articles in the volume center on a frequent theme: speech communities as the essential setting for understanding variation in language. Earlier work in linguistic variation dealt for the most part with phonological variation and change. Syntactic and morphological change and variation in syntax are also discussed. A selection on the role of variation in understanding first language acquisition comprises three papers. Articles in the last section of the volume concern theoretical controversy and methodological advances.