Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. We attempt to further our understanding of the beginnings of language change by analyzing a semantic innovation in Multicultural London English: the use of still as a discourse-pragmatic item in utterance…
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. We attempt to further our understanding of the beginnings of language change by analyzing a semantic innovation in Multicultural London English: the use of still as a discourse-pragmatic item in utterance…
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print.
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. Many scholars consider clause-final adverbs (CFAs) like already, also, and only to be a prominent feature of Colloquial Singapore English (CSE), but little is known about their use in present-day CSE. Usi…
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. This article reviews the status of the trap-bath split in the counties of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. The East Midlands forms a linguistic transition z…
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print.
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print.
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. Descriptions of ethnolects in the U.S. have frequently focused on canonical, well-described features of these varieties, but less work has focused on how such features may overlap and spread into other et…
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. The origins of the variable -s-marking patterns of present-tense verbs in earlier African American English (AAE) have been widely argued, with one of the most common arguments stating that the pattern is …
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. Against the backdrop of the fading Southern Vowel Shift, this paper explores the degree to which different young adults maintain or forego the SVS as a function of demographic traits and self-reported pol…