Clive Upton
List of John Benjamins publications for which Clive Upton plays a role.
Articles
2014 The language of butchery, the UK’s last public craft The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 470–485 | Article
Drawing on survey material from the 1970s, supplemented by present-day observations, this chapter sets out some core matters of the language used by butchers, and goes on to elaborate on three disparate matters of general linguistic concern. It takes a language-historical issue concerning English… read more
2012 The importance of being Janus: Midland speakers and the “North-South Divide” Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach, Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson (eds.), pp. 257–268 | Article
It is well understood that boundaries between linguistic varieties are not solid, but rather that there are transition zones where competing variants merge almost imperceptibly into one another in both geographical and social space. Between northern and southern England there exists the populous… read more