Download or read book Diversity and Diachrony written by David Sankoff and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2. Change and variation in Romance; 3. Functions and discourse.