Miriam Meyerhoff
List of John Benjamins publications for which Miriam Meyerhoff plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 0172-8865 | E-ISSN 1569-9730
ISSN 2452-1949 | E-ISSN 2452-2147
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
Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff
Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 24] 2008. ix, 365 pp.
Subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Special issue Variation in the Pacific Variation in the Pacific: Part II, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), p. | Miscellaneous
2021 Special issue Variation in the Pacific Variation in the Pacific: Part I, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), p. | Miscellaneous
2020 Introduction: Variation in the Pacific Variation in the Pacific: Part I, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 151–159 | Introduction
2020 Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages, Horesh, Uri, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Introduction
2020 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
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
2019 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
A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables: Big issues with smaller samples in language variation Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015, Buchstaller, Isabelle and Beat Siebenhaar (eds.), pp. 23–46 | Chapter
2017 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
Turning variation on its head: Analysing subject prefixes in Nkep (Vanuatu) for language documentation Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1:1, pp. 78–108 | Article
2015 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
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
2015 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
2014
Syntactic variation and change: The variationist framework and language contact The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings, Léglise, Isabelle and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 23–52 | Article
2013 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
Grammatical variation in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:2, pp. 209–234 | Article
2012 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
Teenagers’ acquisition of variation: A comparison of locally-born and migrant teens’ realisation of English (ing) in Edinburgh and London English World-Wide 32:2, pp. 206–236 | Article
2011 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
2009
16. Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Stanford, James N. and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 369–396 | Article
2009 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
Empirical problems with domain-based notions of "simple" Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 327–355 | Article
2008 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
Introduction: Social lives in language Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
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15. All the same? The emergence of complementizers in Bislama Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom and Manfred von Roncador (eds.), pp. 341–359 | Chapter
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