Language Variation and Change

Volume 17 : Issue 1

Table of Contents

• The aint constraint: Not-contraction in early African American English 
  James A. Walker
  Page 1
• The development of a new pronoun: The linguistic and social embedding of a gente in Brazilian Portuguese 
  Ana M. S. Zilles
  Page 19
• The diffusion of subject you: A case study in historical sociolinguistics 
  Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
  Page 55
• No taming the vernacular! Insights from the relatives in northern Britain 
  Sali Tagliamonte, Jennifer Smith and Helen Lawrence
  Page 75