1. List of contributors; 2. Exploring the dynamics of linguistic variation through public and private corpora (by Nevalainen, Terttu); 3. Part I. Creating discourse; 4. Introduction; 5. 'And so now...': The grammaticalisation and (inter)subjectification of now (by Defour, Tine); 6. Self-repetition in spoken English discourse (by Kjellmer, Goran); 7. Modal adverbs in interaction - obviously and definitely in adolescent speech (by Aijmer, Karin); 8. Pressing -ing into service: I don't want you coming around here any more (by Wherrity, Michael P.); 9. Part II. Moving across varieties; 10. Introduction; 11. Conversations from the speech community: Exploring language variation in synchronic dialect corpora (by Tagliamonte, Sali A.); 12. The English modals and semi-modals: Regional and stylistic variation (by Collins, Peter); 13. Patterns of negation: The relationship between NO and NOT in regional varieties of English (by Peters, Pam); 14. Verb-complementational profiles across varieties of English: Comparing verb classes in Indian English and British English (by Mukherjee, Joybrato); 15. Angloversals? Concord and interrogatives in contact varieties of English (by Sand, Andrea); 16. South Pacific Englishes - Unity and diversity in the usage of the present perfect (by Biewer, Carolin); 17. Part III. Levelling out variability; 18. Introduction; 19. Feature loss in 19th century Irish English (by Hickey, Raymond); 20. The written wor(l)ds of men and women in early white Australia (by Fritz, Clemens); 21. The progressive and phrasal verbs: Evidence of colloquialization in nineteenth-century English? (by Smitterberg, Erik); 22. Probabilistic determinants of genitive variation in spoken and written English: A multivariate comparison across time, space, and genres (by Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt); 23. Her daughter's being taken into care or her daughter being taken...? Genitive and common-case marking of subjects of verbal gerund clauses in Present-day English (by Lyne, Susanna); 24. Subject index

The selection and order of contributions results in a coherent and comprehensive volume of cutting-edge research. The range of methodologies employed and spectrum of linguistic features and varieties of English investigated make this volume a valuable resource for anybody interested in the English language and linguistic variation.