We report on longitudinal changes in the system of intensification in an innovative corpus that spans five decades of dialectal speech. Our analyses allow us — for the first time in a British context — to trace the quantitative development in the variable across four generations. Longitudinal analysis across real and apparent time determines the effect of extralinguistic and intralinguistic variables on intensification in Tyneside and tests to what extent real time data corroborates trends reported from previous apparent time analyses. Long-term competition within the variable manifests itself in distinctive developmental trajectories: expansion — both proportionally within the variable as well as across adjectival categories — tends to follow one of three types of patterns, exemplified, respectively, by really, so and dead. Variant retraction, however, follows only one schema. Importantly, numerical decline in the system does not necessarily go hand in hand with a reduction in breadth of application.
2024. Variable use of intensifiers in Ottawa English. Heliyon 10:10 ► pp. e31369 ff.
Núñez-Pertejo, Paloma
2023. Practically impossible: The development of an English approximator. Studia Neophilologica 95:1 ► pp. 63 ff.
Stange, Ulrike
2023. So Grown Stale? On Intensifying and Emphasizing Uses of Preverbalsoin Present-Day American English. American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage 98:3 ► pp. 235 ff.
Buchstaller, Isabelle, Adam Mearns, Anja Auer & Anne Krause-Lerche
2021. Lifespan “Changes from Above” in the Standardization of Japanese Regional Dialects: Levels of Grammar, Lexical Properties and Community Characteristics. Language Variation and Change 33:3 ► pp. 297 ff.
2024. A corpus‐based analysis of adjective amplification in Hong Kong, Indian and Philippine English. World Englishes
Stratton, James M.
2020. A diachronic analysis of the adjective intensifierwellfrom Early Modern English to Present Day English. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 65:2 ► pp. 216 ff.
Stratton, James M.
2021. ‘That's proper cool’. English Today 37:4 ► pp. 206 ff.
2018. The Effect of Economic Trajectory and Speaker Profile on Lifespan Change: Evidence from Stative Possessives on Tyneside. In Sociolinguistics in England, ► pp. 215 ff.
Jansen, Sandra & Natalie Braber
2018. An Overview of Sociolinguistics in England. In Sociolinguistics in England, ► pp. 1 ff.
Stratton, James
2018. The Use of the Adjective Intensifierwellin British English: A Case Study ofThe Inbetweeners. English Studies 99:8 ► pp. 793 ff.
Vaughn, Charlotte, Tyler Kendall & Kaylynn Gunter
2018. Probing the Social Meaning of English Adjective Intensifiers as a Class Lab Project. American Speech 93:2 ► pp. 298 ff.
Corrigan, Karen P.
2017. Corpora for Regional and Social Analysis. In Language and a Sense of Place, ► pp. 107 ff.
2015. Perception, cognition, and linguistic structure: The effect of linguistic modularity and cognitive style on sociolinguistic processing. Language Variation and Change 27:3 ► pp. 319 ff.
Blanco-Suárez, Zeltia
2014. Oh he is olde dogge at expoundingdeadesure at a Catechisme: Some considerations on the history of the intensifying adverbdeadin English. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 46:1 ► pp. 117 ff.
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