Jennifer Smith
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jennifer Smith plays a role.
2021 Chapter 1. Child language acquisition and sociolinguistic variation Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan, Ghimenton, Anna, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), pp. 11–20 | Chapter
The majority of studies conducted on first language acquisition concentrates on the acquisition of standard varieties, where deterministic, or invariant, forms are the focus of research. At the same time, research in sociolinguistics has shown that language is full of variable forms which are… read more
2006 Layering, competition and a twist of fate: Deontic modality in dialects of English Diachronica 23:2, pp. 341–380 | Article
This paper examines an area of ongoing change in English — deontic modality — and uses an archive of synchronic dialect data from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland to discover new information about its development. History records a cline in this system from must to have to to have got to. By… read more
2005 Variation and the minimalist program Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social, Cornips, Leonie and Karen P. Corrigan (eds.), pp. 149–178 | Article
2005 English dialects in the British Isles in cross-variety perspective: A base-line for future research 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. 87–117 | Article
2004 Accounting for vernacular features in a Scottish dialect: Relic, innovation, analogy and drift New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002, Kay, Christian, Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith (eds.), pp. 177–193 | Article
2002 Either it isnt or its not: neg/aux contraction in British dialects English World-Wide 23:2, pp. 251–281 | Article
The source dialects in Britain are critical to disentangling the history and development of varieties in North America and elsewhere. One feature which appears to provide a critical diagnostic, particularly for situating dialects geographically in Britain, is negative (neg) vs. auxiliary (aux)… read more
2000 ‘You Ø na hear o’ that kind o’ things’: Negative do in Buckie Scots English World-Wide 21:2, pp. 231–259 | Article
In this article, I conduct a quantitative analysis of do absence in negative declaratives in the present tense in a dialect from the north-east of Scotland, Buckie. Analysis of nearly 800 contexts of use reveals that this variation is entirely conditioned by linguistic internal constraints. The… read more