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in press Form, function and frequency in phonological variation. Language Variation and Change. (to appear in 2012). Grammatical variation in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. (Co-author: M. Meyerhoff). (to appear in 2012). Variation analysis. In R. Podesva & D. Sharma (eds.), Research Methods in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (to appear in 2012). Studies of the community and the individual. In R. Bayley & C. Lucas (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Co-author: M. Meyerhoff). (to appear in 2012). Variation in existentials on Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines): Grammatical or lexical? In J.K. Parrot (ed.), Theoretical Approaches to Intra-individual Variation and its Empirical Study. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (Co-author: M. Meyerhoff).   2011 Collocations in grammaticalization and variation. In H. Narrog (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 225-38. (Co-author: R. Torres Cacoullos). Inherent variability and coexistent systems: Negation on Bequia. In L. Hinrichs & J. Farquharson (eds.), Variation in the Caribbean: From Creole Continua to Individual Agency. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 39-55. (Co-author: J. Sidnell).   2010 Aspect in Grammatical Variation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. (edited volume). Variation in Linguistic Systems. London and New York: Routledge. Ethnolects and the city: Ethnic orientation and linguistic variation in Toronto English. Language Variation and Change 21.1:37-67. (Co-author: Michol Hoffman).   2009 The present of the English future: Grammatical variation and collocations in discourse. Language 85(2):321-54. (Co-author: R. Torres Cacoullos). On the persistence of grammar in discourse formulas: A variationist study of that. Linguistics 47(1): 1-43. (Co-author: R. Torres Cacoullos).   2007 The persistence of variation in individual grammars: Copula absence in 'urban sojourners' and their stay-at-home peers, Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines). Journal of Sociolinguistics 11(3): 346-366. (Co-author: M. Meyerhoff). "There's bears back there": Plural existentials and vernacular universals in (Quebec) English. English World-Wide 28(2): 147-166.