1. Preface; 2. Conributors; 3. I. Varieties of English and their history; 4. De facto segregation of black and white vernaculars (by Labov, William); 5. The use of the verbal -s Inflection in BEV (by Myhill, John); 6. Linguistic correlates of inter-ethnic contact (by Ash, Sharon); 7. Testing listeners' reactions to phonological markers of ethnic identity: a new method for sociolinguistic research (by Graff, David); 8. Of-Reduction in black English: A quantitative study (by Sanchez, Francisca); 9. Contrastive use of verbal -z in Slava Narratives (by Pitts, Walter); 10. More evidence for major vowel change change in the south (by Feagin, Crawford); 11. Variation and the study of Engllish historical syntax (by Rissanen, Matti); 12. The development of preverbal only in early modern English (by Nevalainen, Terttu); 13. On the use of the modal auxiliaries Can and May in American English (by Kyto, Merja); 14. Is there anadverbial in this text? (and if so, what is it doing there?) (by Tottie, Gunnel); 15. Syntactic development after childhood: beyond the vernacular (by Wald, Benji); 16. II. Change and avriation in romance; 17. Going through (L) in Canadian French (by Poplack, Shana); 18. /S/ deletion and pronoun usage in Puerto Rican Spanish (by Hochberg, Judith G.); 19. La variation du /r/ dans l'espagnol de Santiago (by Alba, Orlando); 20. Changements en Chaine dans le francais montrealais (by Yaeger-Dror, Malcah); 21. Intonational variability in language contact. F0 Declination in Ontarian French (by Cichocki, Wladyslaw); 22. Functional and structural properties in a variable syntax (by Tarallo, Fernando); 23. Variation in case marking with infinitival and clausal complements (by Pearce, Elizabeth); 24. The social profile of a syntactico-semantic variable: three verb forms in old Castile (by Silva-Corvalan, Carmen); 25. Metrical structure and vowel deletion in Montreal French (by Cedergen, Henrietta J.); 26. Grammaticalisation des pronouns de la troisieme personne en francais parle a Montreal (by Thibault, Pierrette); 27. Variation linguistique: le cas des pronoms personnels du francais (by Deshaies, Denise); 28. Les expressions de la restriction en francais de Montreal (by Massicotte, France); 29. Formes connectives et cohesion textuelle dans le discours conversationnel d'enfants de differentes classes sociales dans le capitale mexicaine (by Williamson, Rodney); 30. Is child language a possible source of linguistic variation ? (by Mougeon, Raymond); 31. III. Functions of discourse; 32. Linguistic analysis of the three kinds (by Fasold, Ralph W.); 33. Turn-initial variation: structure and function in conversation (by Schiffrin, Deborah); 34. Quantificateur et marqueur de discours (by Lemieux, Monique); 35. Toward a unified model of sociolinguistic prestige (by Finegan, Edward); 36. Cajun/English code-switching: a test of formal models (by Brown, Becky); 37. Factors affecting the form of question signals in American sign language (by Baker-Shenk, Charlotte); 38. Constituent-gap dependencies in Norwegian: an acceptable study (by Creider, Chet A.); 39. Author index
