Language Variation and Change Historical and contemporary perspectives Special issue of Spanish in Context 3:1 (2006)
Table of contents
Articles Language variation and change: Historical and contemporary perspectives Clare Mar-Molinero and Miranda Stewart 1-4
Towards a history of register in Spanish Christopher J. Pountain 5-24
El tiempo futuro en el español de California (1800-1930): Incidencia del género en un cambio lingüístico en marcha Alejandra Balestra 25-47
What did sociolinguistics ever do for language history? The contribution of sociolinguistic theory to the diachronic study of Spanish Ralph Penny 49-62
Copula choice in the Spanish of Galicia: The effects of bilingualism on language use Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes and Kimberly L. Geeslin 63-83
Spanish (s) aspiration as a prestige marker on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border Ana Maria Carvalho 85-114
Taboo words in teenage talk: London and Madrid girls' conversations compared Anna-Brita Stenström 115-138
Lento deslizamiento del género gramatical femenino al centro del discurso: Nuevos aires en la identificación de mujeres en la prensa española Mercedes Bengoechea 139-157