Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Book Reviews: World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 201-204, June 2022.
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Contact and Innovation in New Englishes: Ethnic Neutrality in Namibian face and goat
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 169-200, June 2022. 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 …
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
N-is Focalizers as Semi-fixed Constructions: Modeling Variation across World Englishes
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 115-141, June 2022. 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 inform…
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
A Diachronic Study of Modals and Semi-modals in Indian English Newspapers
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 142-168, June 2022. 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 th…
Journal of English Linguistics
Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 106-111, March 2022.
Journal of English Linguistics
Merger Reversal in St. Louis: Implementation and Implications
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 72-105, March 2022. 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….
Journal of English Linguistics
Recent Grammatical Change in Postcolonial Englishes: A Real-time Study of Genitive Variation in Caribbean and Indian News Writing
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2022. 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 fro…
Journal of English Linguistics
Regional Variation and Syntactic Derivation of Low-frequency need-passives on Twitter
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 39-71, March 2022. This paper examines constructions formed by the verb need taking a passivized complement. While previous dialectological, sociolinguistic, and micro-syntactic analyses have foc…