Focus on Canada
Edited by Sandra Clarke
[Varieties of English Around the World, G11] 1993. xii, 302 pp.
Sandra Clarke
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sandra Clarke plays a role.
Title
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2012 From Ireland to Newfoundland: What’s the perfect after doing? New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 101–130 | Article
Irish English is well-known for its extensive range of perfect equivalents, including the after-perfect and the medial-object perfect. Yet the literature displays no consensus on either the precise semantics of the former or the origins of the latter (along with those of the “extended present”, the… read more
2009 4. Sociolinguistic stratification and new dialect formation in a Canadian aboriginal community: Not so different after all? Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Stanford, James N. and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 109–128 | Article
This paper documents a case of new dialect formation in the Canadian aboriginal community of Sheshatshiu, Labrador, established as a permanent settlement in 1959. It examines the applicability of a quantitative variationist approach to the investigation of language change and cross-generational… read more
2005 Ingressive particles across borders: Gender and discourse parallels across the North Atlantic 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. 51–72 | Article
2004 Verbal -s reconsidered: The Subject Type Constraint as a diagnostic of historical transatlantic relationship 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. 1–13 | Article
1997 On establishing historical relationships between new and old world varieties: Habitual aspect and Newfoundland Vernacular English Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 277 ff. | Article
1997 The Role of Irish English in the Formation of New World Englishes: The Case from Newfoundland Focus on Ireland, Kallen, Jeffrey L. (ed.), pp. 207 ff. | Article
1993 The Americanization of Canadian pronunciation: A survey of palatal glide usage Focus on Canada, Clarke, Sandra (ed.), pp. 85–108 | Article
1993 Introduction Focus on Canada, Clarke, Sandra (ed.), pp. vii–xii | Miscellaneous