Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social
Edited by Leonie Cornips and Karen P. Corrigan
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 265] 2005. vi, 312 pp.
Karen P. Corrigan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karen P. Corrigan plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2015 Morphosyntactic features of Northern English Researching Northern English, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 71–98 | Article
This chapter examines grammatical features in Northern varieties of English. With the notable exception of Kortmann and Szmrecsanyi (2004), typologies of English dialects adduce dialect regions according to phonological or lexical criteria. The dearth of systematic knowledge about features “above… read more
2015 “I always think of people here, you know, saying ‘like’ after every sentence”: The dynamics of discourse-pragmatic markers in Northern Irish English Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 37–64 | Article
This chapter investigates eight discourse-pragmatic markers in a corpus of
Northern Irish English, some of which are interesting on account of their
absence or rarity and others because they appear to index social categories
like age and sex.1 Although some of these (particularly like) have already… read more
2015 The rise of the going to future in Tyneside English: Evidence for further grammaticalisation English World-Wide 36:2, pp. 198–227 | Article
This paper investigates the relative frequencies of the two major syntactic markers of future time expression (FTE), be going to and will in the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE). In particular, the rise in the frequency of be going to will be examined in the light of current… read more
2012 Is Dublin English ‘Alive Alive Oh’? New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Article
Hickey (2005) has argued that there are three social varieties of Dublin English (‘Local’, ‘Mainstream’ and ‘New Dublin’) and that younger females are key players in the shift towards the ‘New Dublin’ type. With a view to further investigating some aspects of Hickey’s proposals, this article… read more
2011 “Judge not lest ye be judged”: Exploring methods for the collection of socio-syntactic data Language Variation - European Perspectives III: Selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), Copenhagen, June 2009, Gregersen, Frans, Jeffrey K. Parrott and Pia Quist (eds.), pp. 149–160 | Article
2006 Review of Filppula, Klemola & Pitkänen (2002): The Celtic Roots of English English World-Wide 27:2, pp. 229–234 | Review
2005 No, nay, never: Negation in Tyneside English Aspects of English Negation, Iyeiri, Yoko (ed.), pp. 139–157 | Article
2005 A tale of two dialects: Relativization in Newcastle and Sheffield Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002, Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä (eds.), pp. 211–229 | Article
2005 Toward an integrated approach to syntactic variation: A retrospective and prospective synopsis Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social, Cornips, Leonie and Karen P. Corrigan (eds.), pp. 1–27 | Article
2000 “What bees to be maun be”: Aspects of deontic and epistemic modality in a northern dialect of Irish English English World-Wide 21:1, pp. 25–62 | Article
Irish-English (IrE) as a contact vernacular permits tense, mood and aspect categories to be marked in a manner which distinguishes this variety from all other world Englishes. Researchers, however, have been preoccupied with its distinctive tense and aspect markers and much less is known about the… read more