The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is

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

Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variation and change

Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unifi

Why does human language vary from one person, or one group, to another? In what ways does it vary? How do linguists go about studying variation in, say, the sou