Gregory Guy

Gregory R. Guy, BA Boston, MA, PhD Pennsylvania, specializes in the study of language variation and diversity. He is Professor of Linguistics at New York University and has taught at Sydney, Temple, Cornell, Stanford, and York, and at Institutes of the Linguistic Society of America (1993, 1997, 2003) and the Associação Brasileira de Lingüística (1999, 2005). His areas of interest include sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, and Portuguese and Spanish linguistics. In sociolinguistics he has focused on language variation, language contact, quantitative methods, and the connection between social diversity and language change. He has conducted research on Brazilian Portuguese, Australian and American English, and Dominican and Argentine Spanish. Recent research projects include an investigation of ‘sociolinguistic universals’ with funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Notable publications include "Towards a Social Science of Language" and a series of papers in the journal "Language Variation and Change" dealing with linguistic variation and phonological theory.

Published Works

Gregory R Guy, John Baugh, Deborah Schiffrin, and Crawford Feagin "Towards a social science of language:papers in honor of William Labov" Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ISBN 1-55619-581-8 (vol. 1) ISBN 90-272-3631-3 (vol. 2)