Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. 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 necessity…
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 319-323, September 2022.
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 219-246, September 2022. 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 Ci…
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 315-319, September 2022.
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 281-314, September 2022. Listeners are sensitive to the frequency at which speakers produce sociolinguistic features in utterances, reflected in their social evaluations of those speakers. Previo…
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 247-280, September 2022. 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 rais…
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 208-213, June 2022.
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 204-208, June 2022.
Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 201-204, June 2022.
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…