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Syntax and sociolinguistics

by Richard Hudson

last changed 31/3/07

Bibliographical information

In Joachim Jacobs, Arnim von Stechow, Wolfgang Sternefeld and Theo Vennemann (eds.) 1995. Syntax. An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (pp. 1514-1528).

Abstract

1. Introduction
2. Defining 'Sociolinguistics'
3. Syntactic Constraints on Code-Mixing
4. Syntax in Multilingual Communities
5. Syntactic Variation in a Creole Continuum
6. Syntactic Peculiarities of Dialects or Registers
7. Social Influences on Syntax
8. Quantitative Approaches to Syntactic Analysis
9. Quantitative Methods and GrammaticalTheory
10. The Locus of Grammars and of Variation
11. References