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 …
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, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 106-111, March 2022.
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, 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, 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…