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Grammatical variation and change in Jersey English /
Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of spoken...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. G48. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of maps, figures and tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical foundations; 2.1 Linguistic variation and change: Fields and methods; 2.2 Morphological and syntactic variation; 2.3 Linguistic change; 2.4 Linguistic contact; 2.5 Identity and attitudes; 3. Jersey English in context ; 3.1 Previous research; 3.1.1 Non-linguistic research relevant to the study; 3.1.2 Research on Channel Island French; 3.1.3 Research on Channel Island English.
- 3.2 Socio-historical overview and sociolinguistic situation today4. Methods and data; 4.1 Research design; 4.1.1 Representativeness and judgement sample; 4.1.2 Speaker categories; Nativeness; Linguistic background; Age; Gender and ethnicity; Social background; 4.2 Data collection; 4.2.1 Sociolinguistic interviews; 4.2.2 Written questionnaires; 4.2.3 Oral history recordings; 4.2.4 Participant observation; 4.2.5 Additional data; 4.3 Data transcription; 4.4 Description and characteristics of the corpus of spoken Jersey English; 4.4.1 The Jersey Interview Corpus (JIC).
- 4.4.2 The Jersey Archive Corpus (JAC) and its additional component (JACa) 4.5 Analyses and statistical testing; 4.6 Summary; 5. Discourse marker eh; 5.1 The particle eh; 5.2 Syntactic contexts and pragmatic functions; 5.3 Distribution of eh in Jersey English; 5.3.1 Distribution of eh by age; 5.3.2 Eh in comparison with other discourse markers; 5.3.3 Distribution of eh by education and occupation; 5.3.4 Distribution of eh by gender; 5.4 Eh
- a contact phenomenon?; 5.5 Comparison with eh in Guernsey English; 5.6 Comparison with eh in British English; 5.7 Eh
- an identity marker?
- 5.8 Summary and conclusion6. Features of the Jersey English verb phrase; 6.1 I went and buy them: Verb-and-verb constructions; 6.1.1 Previous findings on verb-and-verb constructions in standard English; 6.1.2 Previous findings on FAP in Channel Island English; 6.1.3 Findings on FAP in Jersey English; 6.1.3.1 Characteristics of FAP in Jersey English; 6.1.3.2 Sociolinguistic distribution of FAP in Jersey English; 6.1.4 FAP
- A contact phenomenon?; 6.1.5 Summary and conclusion; 6.2 There's a lot of Jersey cows: Agreement in existential there-constructions.
- 6.2.1 Agreement in existential there-constructions across English varieties6.2.2 Previous research on agreement in existentials in Channel Island English; 6.2.3 Findings on agreement in existential there-constructions in Jersey English; 6.2.3.1 Linguistic constraints; 6.2.3.2 Sociolinguistic distribution; 6.2.4 Singular forms of BE in plural there-existentials
- A contact phenomenon?; 6.2.5 Summary and conclusion; 6.3 Further observations on the verb phrase; 6.3.1 Tense and aspect; 6.3.2 Agreement; 6.3.3 Verb morphology; 7. Other grammatical features: An overview; 7.1 Relative clauses.