James A. Walker
List of John Benjamins publications for which James A. Walker plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 0172-8865 | E-ISSN 1569-9730
Titles
Regional Chinese in Contact
Edited by James A. Walker
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:1 (2019) v, 108 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Aspect in Grammatical Variation
Edited by James A. Walker
[Studies in Language Variation, 6] 2010. vi, 150 pp.
Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
Chapter 15. The sociolinguistics of urban multilingualism: Toronto and Melbourne Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.), pp. 395–413 | Chapter
2024 Changing patterns of global migration and increasing ethnolinguistic (super)diversity hold sociolinguistic consequences for heritage/community languages (HCL) and majority languages in large urban centres. Studies in different cities have noted the existence of (multi-)ethnolects, which may… read more
Order in the creole speech community: Marking past temporal reference in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Language Ecology 3:1, pp. 58–88 | Article
2019 Creolists and variationists often conceptualize variation in multilectal speech communities as a continuum of linearly ordered linguistic features. Using the variationist comparative method, we analyze variation in past tense marking in a creole speech community (Bequia, St Vincent and the… read more
Introduction: Special issue on regional Chinese in contact Regional Chinese in Contact, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Introduction
2019 Subject and object pronoun use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Prescod, Paula (ed.), pp. 67–86 | Article
2015 This chapter examines the use of pronouns in Bequia English, considering the quantitative distribution of subject and non-subject pronoun forms in subject and object position in the spontaneous speech of 18 speakers from three villages. We contrast the case-based Standard English pronominal system… read more
Grammatical variation in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:2, pp. 209–234 | Article
2012 Despite the publication of Aceto & Williams (2003), the languages spoken in the Eastern Caribbean remain underdescribed. In this paper, we outline a project examining language use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines), based on fieldwork between 2003 and 2005, comprising over 100 hours of… read more
Review of Maguire & McMahon (2011): Analysing Variation in English Diachronica 29:4, pp. 552–557 | Review
2012 Inherent variability and coexistent systems: Negation in Bequia Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency, Hinrichs, Lars and Joseph T. Farquharson (eds.), pp. 39–56 | Article
2011 The robust linguistic variation observed on the island of Bequia (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) raises the question of whether there is a single variable linguistic system or multiple systems. We examine the distribution and conditioning of variable negation (na, ain’t or not/-n’t) in three… read more
Chapter 7. Affairs of state: Defining and coding stativity in English and English-based Creole Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 95–109 | Article
2010 Chapter 1. Introduction Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2010 “There’s bears back there”: Plural existentials and vernacular universals in (Quebec) English English World-Wide 28:2, pp. 147–166 | Article
2007 This paper uses a multivariate analysis of variable agreement in existentials with plural reference in a corpus of Quebec English to determine the status of variable agreement as a vernacular universal. Excluding the frequent invariant form there’s from analysis, both structural and processing… read more