Claire Childs
List of John Benjamins publications for which Claire Childs plays a role.
Article
2016 Canny good , or quite canny ? The semantic-syntactic distribution of canny in the North East of England English World-Wide 37:3, pp. 238–266 | Article
The word canny has long been associated with the dialects of the North East of England, most typically in its adjectival sense. However, it has four distinct functions (adjective, adverb, intensifier and modifier in quantifying expressions), which this paper tracks in a diachronic speech corpus.… read more