Socio-grammatical variation and change : in honour of Jenny Cheshire /: in honour of Jenny Cheshire. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Karen V. Beaman, Isabelle Buchstaller, Sue Fox, James A. Walker.
• Editors: Beaman, Karen V; Buchstaller, Isabelle; Fox, Susan, 1956 October 28; Walker, James A (James Anthony)
• Other Names: Cheshire, Jenny 1946- honouree.
• Contents: Foreword Peter Trudgill Introduction Socio-grammatical variation and change: Theoretical and methodological implications Karen V. Beaman, Isabelle Buchstaller, Sue Fox, and James A. Walker Section 1: CONCEPTUALISING SOCIAL MEANING Chapter 1.1 Historical and ideological dimensions of grammatical variation and change Lesley Milroy Chapter 1.2 Towards an integrated model of perception: Linguistic architecture and the dynamics of sociolinguistic cognition Erez Levon, Isabelle Buchstaller and Adam Mearns Chapter 1.3 Migration, class, and prestige in grammatical change in London Devyani Sharma Chapter 1.4 The role of syntax in the study of sociolinguistic meaning: Evidence from an analysis of right dislocation Emma Moore Section 2: Combining the Social AND THE GRAMMATICAL Chapter 2.1 What happened to those relatives from East Anglia?: a multilocality analysis of dialect levelling in the relative marker system David Britain Chapter 2.2 Relativiser selection in a super-diverse city Miriam Meyerhoff, Alexandra Birchfield, Elaine Ballard, Catherine Watson and Helen Charters Chapter 2.3 Swabian relatives: variation in the use of the wo-relativiser Karen V. Beaman Chapter 2.4 Modeling Socio-Grammatical Variation: Plural Existentials in Toronto English James A. Walker Section 3: Formal Approaches to Syntactic Variation Chapter 3.1 A sociogrammatical analysis of linguistic gaps and transitional forms Sjef Barbiers Chapter 3.2 Variation and Change in the Particle Verb Alternation Across English Dialects Bill Haddican, Daniel Johnson, Joel Wallenberg and Anders Holmberg Chapter 3.3 Explaining Variability in Negative Concord: A Socio-syntactic Analysis David Adger and Jennifer Smith Section 4: LANGUAGE CONTACT AND Multi-eTHNOLECTS Chapter 4.1 Tracing the origins of an urban youth vernacular: founder effects, frequency and culture in the emergence of Multicultural London English Paul Kerswill and Eivind Torgersen Chapter 4.2 Syntactic variation in prepositional phrases of Cité-Duits, a miners’ multi-ethnolect (and other varieties of Dutch and German) Peter Auer and Leonie Cornips Chapter 4.3 When Contact Does Not Matter: The Robust Nature of Vernacular Universals Daniel Schreier Chapter 4.4 From Killycomain to Melbourne: Historical Contact and the Feature Pool Karen P. Corrigan Section 5: Discourse and Pragmatic Variation Chapter 5.1 That beyond convention: The interface of syntax, social structure and discourse Sali A. Tagliamonte and Alexandra D’Arcy Chapter 5.2 Sociolinguistic variation in the marking of new information: The case of indefinite this Stephen Levey, Carmen Klein and Yasmine Abou Taha Chapter 5.3 Tagging monologic narratives of personal experience: utterance-final tags and the construction of adolescent masculinity Heike Pichler
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 417.2; Language and languages -- Variation; Sociolinguistics; Grammar, Comparative and general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000092707; 9781000092660; 9781000092684; 9780429282720
• Related ISBNs: 9780367244798
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