LOT Summer School 2015
Leuven, Belgium page
Language Variation and Change
Daniel Ezra Johnson
Place: Vivaldi
Time: 14:15 - 16:15
Background readings and listenings
- How I got into linguistics and what I got out of it (6 pp.) pdf
- Six people I have learned from text audio
- Turell: Laudatio William Labov (7 pp.) pdf
Monday June 22: Secular linguistics
- if you like... Some principles of linguistic methodology (23 pp.) pdf
- why not try: Field methods of the Project on Linguistic Change and Variation (25 pp.) pdf
Tuesday June 23: Social factors in language variation and change
- if you like... Eckert: Three waves of variation study (12 pp.) pdf
- why not try: The social motivation of a sound change (37 pp.) pdf
Wednesday June 24: Internal factors in language variation and change
- if you like... Words floating on the surface of sound change (28 pp.) pdf
- why not try: Resolving the Neogrammarian controversy (39 pp.) pdf
Thursday June 25: Cognitive and cultural factors in language variation and change
- The overestimation of functionalism (22 pp.) pdf
- Yankee cultural imperalism and the Northern Cities Shift (29 pp.) pdf
Friday June 26: The language of (everyday) life and death
- if you like... The Language of Life and Death (beginning and end, 23 pp.) pdf
- why not try: The logic of non-standard English (40 pp.) pdf
Further readings: LVC in more context
- Some observations on the foundation of linguistics (6 pp.) pdf
- Shuy: A brief history of American sociolinguistics (24 pp.) pdf
- Koerner: William Labov and the origins of sociolinguistics in America (22 pp.) pdf
Further Readings: LVC in more depth
- The Social Stratification of English in New York City pdf
- Weinreich, Labov & Herzog: Empirical foundations for a theory of language change pdf
- Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular book
- Sociolinguistic Patterns book
- Labov, Yaeger & Steiner: A Quantitative Study of Sound Change in Progress text figures
- Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 1: Internal Factors book
- Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors book
- Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3: Cognitive and Cultural Factors book
- Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change book
- The Language of Life and Death: The Tranformation of Experience in Oral Narrative book
- Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed book