Dania Jovanna Bonness
List of John Benjamins publications for which Dania Jovanna Bonness plays a role.
Articles
2019 Chapter 9. ‘[S]eas may divide and oceans roll between but Friends is Friends whatever intervene’: Emigrant letters in New Zealand Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 185–209 | Chapter
Present-day New Zealand English is a relatively homogenous, uniform variety with little regional variation (Gordon and Trudgill 2004: 448), but just over 150 years ago, various different English dialects could be heard in Aotearoa – the land of the long white cloud. One of them was Irish English.… read more
2017 The Northern Subject Rule in the Irish diaspora: Subject-verb agreement among first- and second-generation emigrants to New Zealand English World-Wide 38:2, pp. 125–152 | Article
This article examines the Northern Subject Rule in the Irish diaspora, studying letters from two generations of an Ulster emigrant family in 19th-century New Zealand. The study shows that the concord pattern frequently used by the parent generation almost completely disappeared in the language… read more