The Romance languages offer a particularly fertile ground for the exploration of the relationship between language and society in different social contexts and communities. Focusing on a wide range of Romance languages – from national languages to minoritised varieties – this volume explores questions concerning linguistic diversity and multilingualism, language contact, medium and genre, variation and change. It will interest researchers and policy-makers alike.

• Manuals of Romance Linguistics 6
• Acknowledgements 8
• Table of Contents 10
• 0. Romance sociolinguistics: past, present, future 16
• Introduction 16
• 1. Annotating oral corpora 40
• Methodological issues 40
• 2. Quantitative approaches for modelling variation and change: a case study of sociophonetic data from Occitan 72
• 3. Collecting and analysing creole data 104
• 4. Fieldwork and building corpora for endangered varieties 127
• 5. Romance dialectology: from the nineteenth century to the era of sociolinguistics 147
• 6. Speaker variables in Romance: when demography and ideology collide 186
• Variation and change 186
• 7. Speaker variables and their relation to language change 210
• 8. Variation and grammaticalization in Romance: a cross-linguistic study of the subjunctive 230