Social Dialectology

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction (by Britain, David); 3. Pursuing the cascade model (by Labov, William); 4. Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features in a local community (by Hernandez-Campoy, Juan Manuel); 5. Systemic accomodation (by Preston, Dennis R.); 6. New dialect formation: The focusing of -kum in Amman (by Al-Wer, Enam); 7. Variation and sound change in New Zealand English (by Maclagan, Margaret); 8. An East Anglian in the South Atlantic?: Interpreting morphosyntactic resemblances in terms of direct input, parallel development, and linguistic contact (by Schreier, Daniel); 9. Sociolinguistics of immigration (by Chambers, J.K.); 10. Why fuude is not 'food' and tschegge is not 'check': A new look at the actuation problem (by Watts, Richard J.); 11. Parallel development and alternative restructuring: The case of weren't intensification (by Wolfram, Walt); 12. Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change: Fitting the pieces of the puzzle together (by Milroy, Lesley); 13. Changing mental maps and morphology: Divergence caused by international border changes (by Kontra, Miklos); 14. Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology (by Britain, David); 15. When is a sound change?: On the role of external factors in language change (by Milroy, James); 16. Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English (by Kerswill, Paul); 17. Social dimensions of syntactic variation: The case of when clauses (by Cheshire, Jenny); 18. Language variation in Greece (by Sifianou, Maria); 19. A Norwegian adult language game, anti-language or secret code: The Smoi of Mandal (by Jahr, Ernst Hakon); 20. Children and linguistic normativity (by Millar, Sharon); 21. The virtue of the vernacular: On intervention in linguistic affairs (by Widdowson, Henry G.); 22. The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties (by Faarlund, Jan Terje); 23. Peter Trudgill's publications; 24. Index