Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • I. Language in Social and Historical Space
  • Introduction
  • 1. Political Power and Linguistic Inequality in Papua New Guinea
  • 2. Language Use in Multilingual Societies: Some Alternate Approaches
  • 3. A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence
  • 4. Above and Beyond Phonology in Variable Rules
  • 5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea
  • 6. Mutual Intelligibility, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Boundaries
  • 7. Wave Versus Stammbaum Explanations of Lexical Similarities
  • 8. Cognitive Variability and New Guinea Social Organization: the Buang Dgwa
  • 9. Quantitative Analysis of Sharing and Variability in a Cognitive Model
  • II. Studies of Particular Linguistic Variables
  • Introduction
  • 10. On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language
  • 11. The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives
  • 12. Variability and Explanation in Language and Culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin
  • 13. Anything You Can Do
  • 14. The Productive Use of ne in Spoken Montréal French
  • 15. The Alternation Between the Auxiliaries avoir and être in Montréal French
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes