Linguistic variation and change: On the historical sociolinguistics of English. By James Milroy. (Language in society, 19.) Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xii, 243. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.

Language change and variation social and historical linguistics analyzing language in the community - general principles interpreting variation in the speech community on the time-depth of variability in English speaker innovation and linguistic change towards an integrated social model for the interpretation of language change.