This book presents a much-needed discussion on ethnic identification and morphosyntactic variation in San Francisco Chinatown¿a community that has received very little attention in linguistic research. An investigation of original, interactive speech data sheds light on how first- and second- generation Chinese Americans signal (ethnic) identity through morphosyntactic variation in English and on how they co-construct identity discursively. After an introduction to the community¿s history, the book provides background information on ethnic varieties in North America. This discussion grounds the present book within existing research and illustrates how studies on ethnic varieties of English have evolved. The book then proceeds with a description of quantitative and