Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Book Review: Accent in North American Film and Television: A Sociophonetic Analysis
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print.
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Modals and Quasi-Modals in English World-Wide
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. This study explores the distribution of modals and quasi-modals in the twenty English dialects represented in the Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE). Intervarietal trends are observed across and wit…
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Decompositionalization and Partial Recompositionalization: The Emergence of by the Same Token as a Polyfunctional Discourse Marker
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. 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 of synta…
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Book Review: Earlier North American Englishes. Varieties of English Around the World
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print.
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Could Be It’s Grammaticalization: Usage Patterns of the Epistemic Phrases (it) Could/Might Be
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. 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 approac…
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Could Be It’s Grammaticalization: Usage Patterns of the Epistemic Phrases (it) Could/Might Be
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. 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 approac…
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Book Review: Transforming Early English: The Reinvention of Early English and Older Scots
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print.
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Plus ça Change. . . Perceptions of New Orleans English Before and After the Storm
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. 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 a map-…
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
According to NP: A Diachronic Perspective on a Skeptical Evidential
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. 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 they qu…
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Book Review: The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an Emerging Variety
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print.