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Dimensions of Text Complexity in the Spoken and Written Modes: A Comparison of Theory-Based Models Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Douglas Biber, Tove Larsson, Gregory R. Hancock
In many studies, grammatical complexity has been treated as a single unified construct. However, other research contradicts that view, suggesting instead that the different structural types and syntactic functions of complexity features are distributed in texts in fundamentally different ways. These patterns have been documented in general corpora that include a wide range of spoken and written registers
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Book Review: Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English: Records of Communities and People Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Brita Wårvik
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The Role of Local Identity in the Usage and Recognition of Anglo-Cornish Dialect Lexis Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Rhys Sandow
Despite the well attested finding that orientation to place can exhibit correlations with sociolinguistic usage, the role of place identity in sociolinguistic variation and change has been long disputed. The disputes often center around two key points. Firstly, a contested point is whether observed identity effects are independent statistically meaningful effects or whether they are corollaries of
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Decompositionalization and Partial Recompositionalization: The Emergence of by the Same Token as a Polyfunctional Discourse Marker Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Mathilde Pinson
This paper documents the constructionalization of by the same token. Originally, the word same in this phrase did not encode similarity but functioned as an identification emphasizer and a marker o...
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Could Be It’s Grammaticalization: Usage Patterns of the Epistemic Phrases (it) Could/Might Be Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 David Lorenz
Starting from the assumption that grammaticalization is rooted in situated language use, the present study tests the connection between functional reanalysis and formal reduction with a synchronic ...
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Plus ça Change. . . Perceptions of New Orleans English Before and After the Storm Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Nathalie Dajko, Katie Carmichael
In this paper, we present a focused perceptual dialectology study of variation in a single metropolitan area: New Orleans, Louisiana, long overlooked by linguists. We asked participants to complete...
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According to NP: A Diachronic Perspective on a Skeptical Evidential Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Debra Ziegeler
One of the problems challenging formal semantic studies of evidentiality is that reportative evidentials are not always representative of the speaker’s endorsement of the truth of the propositions ...
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Exploring the Vowel Space of Multicultural Toronto English Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Derek Denis, Vidhya Elango, Nur Sakinah Nor Kamal, Srishti Prashar, Maria Velasco
While multiethnolects have been documented in major European metropolises over the last several decades, no such varieties have been reported in North America. This is surprising given the high deg...
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The Functions of Auxiliary Do in Middle English Poetry: A Quantitative Study Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Lorenzo Moretti
The higher frequency of auxiliary do in poetry than in prose in Middle English (1150-1500) is one of the puzzles of the history of this construction. Previous studies have argued that the role of a...
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Placing /aw/ Retraction in the Retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift in Raleigh, North Carolina Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Marie Bissell
This study focuses on changes over apparent time in the /aw/ vowel class (e.g., mouth) in Raleigh, a city in North Carolina whose speakers have undergone vocalic changes away from the Southern Vowe...
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The Emergence and Loss of the English Minor Complementizers till and until Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Noelia Castro-Chao
This article examines the development of the subordinators till and until as minor complementizers in the Late Middle English and Early Modern English periods. An analysis of data obtained from a n...
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Sources of Modal Necessity: The Case of ‘Need To’ Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Ilse Depraetere
This paper offers a principled framework for the analysis of sources associated with modal verbs that express root necessity. First, the notion of “source” (who or what lies at the origin of the ne...
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Generational Phases: Toward the Low-Back Merger in Cooperstown, New York Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-08-27 Aaron J. Dinkin
This paper reports on a new sociolinguistic sample of Cooperstown, a village in rural central New York. Previous research suggested Cooperstown was losing the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) and acquir...
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Variation in Evaluations of Gendered Voices: Individual Speakers Condition the Variant Frequency Effect Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-08-27 Amelia Stecker, Annette D’Onofrio
Listeners are sensitive to the frequency at which speakers produce sociolinguistic features in utterances, reflected in their social evaluations of those speakers. Previous work also illustrates th...
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Prevelar Vowel Raising and Merger in Manitoba English Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-08-27 Sky Onosson
This study examines production of the vowels /æ/, /ɛ/, and /e/ among three different English-speaking ethnic populations in Manitoba, Canada, focusing on patterns of raising and vowel overlap in pr...
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N-is Focalizers as Semi-fixed Constructions: Modeling Variation across World Englishes Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Marianne Hundt
N-is constructions combine a variable article and a shell noun such as thing, fact, or problem with copula be. As discourse markers at the left periphery, they focalize information that follows. Us...
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A Diachronic Study of Modals and Semi-modals in Indian English Newspapers Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Catherine Laliberté
Although Indian English is the best-documented South Asian English, its diachronic development has not been described to a great extent. The present study begins to address this gap by offering a real-time perspective on the evolution of modals and semi-modals in Indian English. It sketches the changes in the frequency of modals and semi-modals in three corpora of Indian newspaper texts from 1939,
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Contact and Innovation in New Englishes: Ethnic Neutrality in Namibian face and goat Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Gerald Stell
This study examines acoustic data from Namibian English to gain insights into how substrates may impact the formation of New Englishes. To this end, the study singles out the Namibian English vowels face and goat, following the assumption that they could be realized as either diphthongs or monophthongs depending on which Namibian language the speaker has as a native language. Based on a sample of face
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Book Review Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Minna Palander-Collin
Royal voices is an exploration into the language and texts that were produced to construct and maintain the Tudors’ royal power. It surveys many types of royal texts for their textual and visual characteristics in order to establish a possible royal voice of the period. The term “voice,” as used in the book, refers to the complex interplay of “the signs of the utterance; the means for that utterance
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Recent Grammatical Change in Postcolonial Englishes: A Real-time Study of Genitive Variation in Caribbean and Indian News Writing Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Stephanie Hackert, Diana Wengler
This paper presents a diachronic analysis of genitive variation in five varieties of English. Based on a set of matching newspaper corpora from the 1960s and the early 2000s from the Bahamas, Jamaica, India, Great Britain, and the U.S., we look into variation and change in the underlying grammar of the genitive alternation, as defined by patterns of constraints affecting the variable. We employ random
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Regional Variation and Syntactic Derivation of Low-frequency need-passives on Twitter Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Christopher Strelluf
This paper examines constructions formed by the verb need taking a passivized complement. While previous dialectological, sociolinguistic, and micro-syntactic analyses have focused primarily on the past-participle complement (need+ED) as a regional syntactic variable, this study expands the purview of need-passives to examine gerund-participle (need+ING) and infinitival (need+TO) complements. It also
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Merger Reversal in St. Louis: Implementation and Implications Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Daniel Duncan
While examples have been clearly attested in the literature, the reversal of a merger is an uncommon occurrence that apparently contradicts principles underlying sound change. Understanding the implications of merger reversal therefore requires understanding of their implementation: whether there was a full merger in the first place, what the phonetic path taken to separate the merger was, and whether
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Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jessica A. Grieser
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Back Vowel Dynamics and Distinctions in Southern American English Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Joseph A. Stanley, Margaret E. L. Renwick, Katherine Ireland Kuiper, Rachel M. Olsen
Southern American English is spoken in a large geographic region in the United States. Its characteristics include back-vowel fronting (e.g., in goose, foot, and goat), which has been ongoing since the mid-nineteenth century; meanwhile, the low back vowels (in lot and thought) have recently merged in some areas. We investigate these five vowels in the Digital Archive of Southern Speech, a legacy corpus
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Mechanisms of Grammaticalization in the Variation of Negative Question Tags Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Claire Childs
This paper presents an investigation of the extent to which Heine’s (2003) mechanisms of grammaticalization—erosion (phonetic reduction), decategorialization (loss of morpho-syntactic properties), desemanticization (semantic bleaching) and extension (context expansion)—are evident in the variation of negative question tags in three varieties of British English spoken in Glasgow, Tyneside, and Salford
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Accent Bias and Perceptions of Professional Competence in England Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Erez Levon, Devyani Sharma, Dominic J. L. Watt, Amanda Cardoso, Yang Ye
Unequal outcomes in professional hiring for individuals from less privileged backgrounds have been widely reported in England. Although accent is one of the most salient signals of such a background, its role in unequal professional outcomes remains underexamined. This paper reports on a large-scale study of contemporary attitudes to accents in England. A large representative sample (N = 848) of the
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Interview with John Baugh Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Tracy Conner
The following interview was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2021. By that time, I had known John Baugh for about eighteen years after having taken my first class on Black English with him at Stanford. I have always been fascinated by John’s ability to merge innovative and culturally relevant, justice-focused research with liberatory outcomes for Black people and Black language
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Intonation and Referee Design Phenomena in the Narrative Speech of Black/Biracial Men Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-07-06 Nicole Holliday
This study examines how men with one Black parent and one white parent variably construct their racial identities through both linguistic practice and explicit testimonials, with a specific focus on how this construction is realized in narratives about law enforcement. The data consist of interviews with five young men, aged 18-32, in Washington, D.C., and the analysis compares use of intonational
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nurse Vowels in Scottish Standard English: Still Distinct or Merged? Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-07-06 Zeyu Li, Ulrike Gut, Ole Schützler
While nearly all dialects on the British Isles have undergone the nurse merger, a process which merged the Middle English vowels /ɪ ɛ ʊ/ into the vowel /ə/ (which was later lengthened to /ɜ:/) in pre-rhotic positions, Scottish Standard English (SSE) is traditionally described as having retained a three-way distinction in these contexts. However, the gradual loss of this contrast has been observed in
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Academic Naming: Changing Patterns of Noun Use in Research Writing Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-06-09 Ken Hyland, Feng (Kevin) Jiang
In this paper we explore the ways academics name processes as things and how these practices have changed over the past fifty years. Focusing on nominalization, noun-noun sequences, and acronyms, we document an increase in these features across a corpus of 2.2 million words within a consistent set of journals from four disciplines. Our results show that nominalizations and acronyms have increased in
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Why Linguists Should Care about Digital Humanities (and Epidemiology) Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-06-09 Seth Mehl
Where there is any perception of digital humanities (DH) within the field of English linguistics, it may be seen as a technical practice preoccupied with digitizing texts and producing digital editions. The one occurrence of digital humanities in JEngL’s archival content is a passing reference to digital editions and the role of editors—in an interview rather than a research article (Grant 2014). Within
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Book Review: Politeness in the History of English: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Jonathan Culpeper
Politeness in the history of English is certainly not the first book to be written in that topic area. 2018 saw the publication of Keith Thomas’s much lauded In pursuit of civility: anners and civilization in early modern England. But that is a book written by a historian for people interested in history. The inescapable fact is that politeness, and related notions such as “civility” and “manners,”
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Intensificatory Tautology in the History of English: A Corpus-based Study Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Victorina González-Díaz
This paper explores the development and establishment of intensificatory tautology (specifically, size-adjective clusters, e.g., “great big plans,” “little tiny room”) in the history of English. The analysis suggests that size-adjective clusters appear in the Late Middle English period as a result of the functional-structural reorganization of the English noun phrase. It is only towards the end of
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Synthetic Intensification Devices in Old English Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Belén Méndez-Naya
Even though degree adverbs (e.g., swiþe) represent the most common intensification strategy in Old English, morphological devices are also very frequent, as expected in a predominantly synthetic language. This article studies synthetic intensification strategies in Old English with a focus on degree modification of adjectives and adverbs by means of spatial formatives (e.g., þurh- in þurhbitter ‘very
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Book Review: Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Derek Denis
Creating Canadian English: The professor, the mountaineer, and a national variety of English (CCE) by Stefan Dollinger is a highly readable history of the codification of Canadian English (CanE) and Canadian lexicography that is based on novel archival research and Dollinger’s own research and professional dictionary writing experience. At its heart, the monograph’s nine chapters trace the context
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Trends and Recent Change in the Syntactic Distribution of Degree Modifiers: Implications for a Usage-based Theory of Word Classes Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Turo Vartiainen
This paper examines the syntactic distribution of degree modifiers in both spoken and written English. The results of the empirical case studies show that degree modifiers, both amplifiers (e.g., very, extremely) and downtoners (e.g., quite, pretty), are generally more often used in predication than in attribution, a result that is in line with earlier observations of the distribution of individual
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Book Review: Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Frank Polzenhagen
Lippi-Green, Rosina. 1994. Accent, standard language ideology, and discriminatory pretext in courts. Language in Society 23. 163-198. Mathews, Mitford M. 1951. A dictionary of Americanisms on historical principles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Silverstein, Michael. 2003. Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life. Language & Communication 23(3/4). 193-229. Winchester, Simon
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What a Change!: A Diachronic Study of Exclamative What Constructions Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Lobke Ghesquière, Faye Troughton
Exclamative constructions fronted by what are generally agreed to be one of the prototypical realizations of the English exclamative clause type. This paper argues that what acts as a degree modifier in these constructions and aims to investigate how what came to be an introductory degree marker of English exclamatives. It examines the diachronic relation between full exclamative what constructions
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Book Review: Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Ksenia Gnevsheva
empirical, usage-based sociolinguistic anchoring without other baggage. This is why in my own work (e.g., Fabricius 2018) I have resorted to using the term “modern RP.” This term is at least a nod to a sociolinguistic generational continuity, which means that while the accent-in-use has evolved and broadened over time, it has not fundamentally disappeared, in the sense that previous forms of the accent
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Book Review: The Emergence and Development of English: An Introduction Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Annina Seiler
Eckert, Penelope. 2018. Meaning and linguistic variation: The third wave in sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Labov, William. 2001. Principles of linguistic change: Social factors. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Mitchell, Alexander George & Arthur Delbridge. 1965. The speech of Australian adolescents: A survey. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Niedzielski, Nancy A. & Dennis R. Preston. 2000
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Book Review: English After RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Anne Fabricius
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“A Good Deal of Intensity”: On the Development of Degree and Quantity Modifier Good Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Lobke Ghesquière
This paper explores how the originally descriptive adjective good (e.g., “a good man”) developed degree modifier (e.g., “a good scolding”) and quantity modifier (e.g., “a good many people”) uses. The work is innovative in exploring the intensification potential of unbounded rather than bounded adjectives and in distinguishing between degree and quantity modification, the latter only recently gaining
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A Little Something Goes a Long Way: Little in the Old Bailey Corpus Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Claudia Claridge, Ewa Jonsson, Merja Kytö
Even though intensifiers have received a good deal of attention over the past few decades, downtoners, comprising diminishers and minimizers, have remained by and large a neglected category (but cf. Brinton, this issue). Among downtoners, the adverb little or a little stands out as the most frequent item. It is multifunctional and serves as a diminishing and minimizing intensifier and also in non-degree
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Intensification in Eighteenth Century Medical Writing Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Turo Hiltunen
While intensifiers are primarily associated with informal spoken registers, they serve important interpersonal functions also in more formal registers like academic prose. The use of intensifiers in scientific writing has accordingly been explored in Present-Day English, and previous studies have also investigated diachronic changes in this register in Middle and Early Modern English. However, the
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“He should so be in jail”: An Empirical Study on Preverbal So in American English Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Ulrike Stange
This paper explores the use of so-called GenX so as a modifier of verb phrases, as exemplified in “He should so be in jail” (SOAP, DAYS, 2005). Drawing on over 1350 relevant tokens retrieved from the Corpus of American Soap Operas (SOAP) (Davies 2011-, 100 million words from 2001-2012), the main purpose of the present study is to provide robust empirical evidence for various findings yielded by small-scale
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“He loved his father but next to adored his mother”: Nigh(ly), Near, and Next (To) as Downtoners Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Laurel J. Brinton
In Present-Day English, nearly functions as an approximator downtoner meaning ‘almost, all but, virtually,’ as do earlier variants based on the same root—nigh, nighly, near, next (to)—though more rarely and in more restricted contexts. Nigh functions as an approximator downtoner in Old and Middle English. When near displaces nigh, nigh is retained as a downtoner with lexical adjectives expressing negative
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“That’s well good”: A Re-emergent Intensifier in Current British English Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Karin Aijmer
Well has a long history and is found as an intensifier already in older English. It is argued that diachronically well has developed from its etymological meaning (‘in a good way’) on a cline of adverbialization to an intensifier and to a discourse marker. Well is replaced by other intensifiers in the fourteenth century but emerges in new uses in Present-Day English. The changes in frequency and use
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Book Review: New England English: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Aaron Dinkin
The earliest of the great Linguistic Atlas Projects documenting regional varieties of twentieth century American English was the Linguistic atlas of New England (Kurath 1939; Kurath, Hanley, Bloch, Lowman & Hansen 1939–1943), published as three volumes of maps showing pronunciations elicited at hundreds of sites across the six New England states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
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Degree and Related Phenomena in the History of English: Evidence of Usage and Pathways of Change Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-11-27 Claudia Claridge, Merja Kytö
This introductory paper sets the scene for the present double special issue on degree phenomena. Besides introducing the individual contributions, it positions degree in the overlapping fields of intensity, focus and emphasis. It outlines the wide-ranging means of expressing degree, their possible categorizations, as well as the many-fold uses of intensification with respect to involvement, politeness
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“The woman in the background”: Gendered Nouns in CNN and FOX Media Discourse Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-08-11 Lex Konnelly
Linguistic democratization, the goal or practice of increasing social equity through language, has not figured prominently in corpus studies. However, corpus-based approaches present the opportunity to probe questions of unequal linguistic representation on a large scale, providing crucial insights into how actors are classified in public discourse, especially with respect to the representation of
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On the History of the English Progressive Construction Jane came whistling down the street Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-08-10 Teresa Fanego
This article examines the historical development of the VVingOBL construction, as exemplified by “Jane came whistling down the street” or “She went walking up the field path,” where an intransitive motion verb is followed by a present participle and an oblique complement. The analysis looks at the precursors of the construction since Old English and argues that the sharp rise in productivity of the
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Negation and Verb-initial Order in Old English Main Clauses Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-08-06 Anna Cichosz
This study investigates two Old English (OE) constructions: “negative inversion” (a negated main clause with a clause-initial verb), and “narrative inversion” (a non-negated main clause with a clause-initial verb). The aim is to determine whether the two patterns may be treated as related “constructions” in Construction Grammar terms, and to identify the factors which promote the use of negative inversion
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Book Review: Word Slut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-07-25 Sara Mills
Shaer, Benjamin & Werner Frey. 2004. Integrated and non-integrated left-peripheral elements in German and English. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 35(2). 465-502. Shlonsky, Ur & Gabriela Soare. 2011. Where’s why? Linguistic Inquiry 42(4). 651-669. Zwicky, Arnold & Ann Zwicky. 1973. How come and what for? In Braj B. Kachru, Robert Lees, Yakov Malkiel, Angelina Pietrangeli & Sol Saporta (eds.), Issues in linguistics:
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Interview with Joan Houston Hall Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-07-18 David Jost
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Non-sexist Language Policy and the Rise (and Fall?) of Combined Pronouns in British and American Written English Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-07-18 Laura L. Paterson
This paper focuses on the use of combined pronouns (s/he, his or her, him/her, etc.) as an example of late twentieth-century non-sexist language reform which had an overt democratizing aim. Within the scope of second-wave feminism, the use of combined pronouns increased the visibility of women in discourse by encouraging the use of feminine pronouns (she, her, hers) alongside masculine pronouns (he
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Democratization and Gender-neutrality in English(es) Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-07-18 Lucía Loureiro-Porto, Turo Hiltunen
“Democratization” and “gender-neutrality” are two concepts commonly used in recent studies on language variation. While both concepts link linguistic phenomena to sociocultural changes, the extent to which they overlap and/or interact has not been studied in detail. In particular, not much is known about how linguistic changes related to democratization and gender-neutrality spread across registers
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Book Review: Colloquial English: Structure and Variation Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-07-15 J. Daniel Hasty
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Review: Language, Sexuality and Education Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Brian W. King
Bybee, Joan. 2010. Language, usage and cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fischer, Olga, Hendrik De Smet & Wim van der Wurff. 2017. A brief history of English syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fonteyn, Lauren & George Walkden. 2019. Review of Fischer, De Smet & van der Wurff (2017), A brief history of English syntax. Journal of Historical Syntax 3(1). 1-12. Jucker, Andreas
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Review: Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Rachel Steindel Burdin
King, Brian W. 2014. Inverting virginity, abstinence, and conquest: Sexual agency and subjectivity in classroom conversation. Sexualities 17(3). 310-328. King, Brian W. 2016. Becoming the intelligible other: Speaking intersex bodies against the grain. Critical Discourse Studies 13(4). 359-378. King, Brian W. 2019. Communities of practice in language research: A critical introduction. London: Routledge
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“Holding Grudges Is So Last Century”: The Use of GenX So as a Modifier of Noun Phrases Journal of English Linguistics (IF 0.542) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Ulrike Stange
This article focuses on the X is so NP-construction in American English, as exemplified by “Holding grudges is so last century” (SOAP, As the World Turns, 2002). Drawing on the Corpus of American Soap Operas (Davies 2011-), the aim of this study is to provide an account of the distributional pattern of noun phrase modification with so, including preferences in modified noun phrase (NP) types and concomitant