Miriam Meyerhoff

List of John Benjamins publications for which Miriam Meyerhoff plays a role.

Journals

Book series

Variation in the Pacific: Part II

Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:1 (2021) v, 82 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages

Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff

Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) v, 130 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Variation in the Pacific: Part I

Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff 2021 Special issue Variation in the PacificVariation in the Pacific: Part II, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), p.  | Miscellaneous
Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff 2020 Special issue Variation in the Pacific Variation in the Pacific: Part I, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), p.  | Miscellaneous
Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff 2020 Introduction: Variation in the PacificVariation in the Pacific: Part I, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 151–159 | Introduction
Meyerhoff, Miriam, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, Roey J. Gafter, Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan, Peter Keegan and Jeanette King 2020 Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguisticsStyles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages, Horesh, Uri, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Introduction
Style, in the study of variation and change, is intimately linked with broader questions about linguistic innovation and change, standards, social norms, and individual speakers’ stances. This article examines style when applied to lesser-studied languages. Style is both (i) the product of… read more
Daleszynska-Slater, Agata, Miriam Meyerhoff and James A. Walker 2019 Order in the creole speech community: Marking past temporal reference in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)Language Ecology 3:1, pp. 58–88 | Article
Creolists and variationists often conceptualize variation in multilectal speech communities as a continuum of linearly ordered linguistic features. Using the variationist comparative method, we analyze variation in past tense marking in a creole speech community (Bequia, St Vincent and the… read more
We undertake a detailed analysis of a sample of over 10,000 utterances from 18 speakers in a corpus of Bequia English and apply constrained cluster analysis to discern patterns that identify the linguistic signatures for different villages and to see how individuals pattern in relation to the rest… read more
This paper uses variationist methods to attack a descriptive problem: by looking at the distribution of a typologically unusual subject prefix (tem- in realis and t- in irrealis) in a set of narrative texts recorded in Nkep, the language of Hog Harbour (Vanuatu), it explores the extent to which… read more
Meyerhoff, Miriam and James A. Walker 2015 Subject and object pronoun use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Prescod, Paula (ed.), pp. 67–86 | Article
This chapter examines the use of pronouns in Bequia English, considering the quantitative distribution of subject and non-subject pronoun forms in subject and object position in the spontaneous speech of 18 speakers from three villages. We contrast the case-based Standard English pronominal system… read more
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2013 Syntactic variation and change: The variationist framework and language contactThe Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings, Léglise, Isabelle and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 23–52 | Article
This chapter introduces linguistic variation, specifically contact-induced language variation, from a variationist point of view. It shows that a focus on social and linguistic constraints on variation using statistical tools provides clues for distinguishing different processes of transfer. Taking… read more
Meyerhoff, Miriam and James A. Walker 2012 Grammatical variation in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:2, pp. 209–234 | Article
Despite the publication of Aceto & Williams (2003), the languages spoken in the Eastern Caribbean remain underdescribed. In this paper, we outline a project examining language use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines), based on fieldwork between 2003 and 2005, comprising over 100 hours of… read more
In recent years, the UK has experienced unparalleled numbers of migrants from Eastern Europe, particularly Poland. Many migrants came with their families. We examined variation in the English spoken by adolescent Polish migrants in Edinburgh and London. We asked: to what extent are teenage Polish… read more
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2009 16. Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate featureVariation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Stanford, James N. and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 369–396 | Article
The source of and, hence, principal factors constraining, several variables in Bislama, an English-lexified Pacific creole, remain the subject of some dispute. This chapter uses quantitative methods to evaluate the strength of claims that variable presence/absence of arguments in Bislama is… read more
This chapter addresses the on-going debate about the relative "simplicity" of creole languages. It proposes that an evaluation of simplicity/complexity must consider not only categorical features of a language but also probabilistic ones, because (it argues) there is a good deal of linguistic… read more
Nagy, Naomi and Miriam Meyerhoff 2008 Introduction: Social lives in languageSocial Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2002 15. All the same? The emergence of complementizers in BislamaReported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom and Manfred von Roncador (eds.), pp. 341–359 | Chapter