This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshire’s influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatical variation and builds upon her contributions with new lines of inquiry pushing sociolinguistic research forward.

ForewordPeter TrudgillIntroductionSocio-grammatical variation and change: Theoretical and methodological implicationsKaren V. Beaman, Isabelle Buchstaller, Sue Fox, and James A. WalkerSection 1: CONCEPTUALISING SOCIAL MEANINGChapter 1.1Historical and ideological dimensions of grammatical variation and changeLesley MilroyChapter 1.2Towards an integrated model of perception: Linguistic architecture and the dynamics of sociolinguistic cognitionErez Levon, Isabelle Buchstaller and Adam MearnsChapter 1.3Migration, class, and prestige in grammatical change in LondonDevyani SharmaChapter 1.4The role of syntax in the study of sociolinguistic meaning: Evidence from an analysis of right dislocationEmma MooreSection 2: Combining the Social AND THE GRAMMATICALChapter 2.1What happened to those relatives from East Anglia?: a multilocality analysis of dialect levelling in the relative marker systemDavid BritainChapter 2.2Relativiser selection in a super-diverse cityMiriam Meyerhoff, Alexandra Birchfield, Elaine Ballard, Catherine Watson and Helen ChartersChapter 2.3Swabian relatives: variation in the use of the wo-relativiser Karen V. BeamanChapter 2.4Modeling Socio-Grammatical Variation: Plural Existentials in Toronto EnglishJames A. WalkerSection 3: Formal Approaches to Syntactic Variation Chapter 3.1A sociogrammatical analysis of linguistic gaps and transitional formsSjef BarbiersChapter 3.2Variation and Change in the Particle Verb Alternation Across English DialectsBill Haddican, Daniel Johnson, Joel Wallenberg and Anders Holmberg Chapter 3.3Explaining Variability in Negative Concord: A Socio-syntactic AnalysisDavid Adger and Jennifer SmithSection 4: LANGUAGE CONTACT AND Multi-eTHNOLECTSChapter 4.1Tracing the origins of an urban youth vernacular: founder effects, frequency and culture in the emergence of Multicultural London EnglishPaul Kerswill and Eivind TorgersenChapter 4.2Syntactic variation in prepositional phrases of Cité-Duits, a miners’ multi-ethnolect (and other varieties of Dutch and German)Peter Auer and Leonie CornipsChapter 4.3When Contact Does Not Matter: The Robust Nature of Vernacular UniversalsDaniel SchreierChapter 4.4From Killycomain to Melbourne: Historical Contact and the Feature Pool Karen P. CorriganSection 5: Discourse and Pragmatic VariationChapter 5.1That beyond convention: The interface of syntax, social structure and discourse Sali A. Tagliamonte and Alexandra D’ArcyChapter 5.2Sociolinguistic variation in the marking of new information: The case of indefinite thisStephen Levey, Carmen Klein and Yasmine Abou TahaChapter 5.3Tagging monologic narratives of personal experience: utterance-final tags and the construction of adolescent masculinity Heike Pichler