Devyani Sharma

orcid.org/0000-0002-2210-5888

List of John Benjamins publications for which Devyani Sharma plays a role.

Journals

Asia-Pacific Language Variation (APLV)

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Anne Schröder

ISSN 0172-8865 | E-ISSN 1569-9730

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JPCL)

Title

English in the Indian Diaspora

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Devyani Sharma

[Varieties of English Around the World, G50] 2014. ix, 244 pp.

Subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles (9) | Order by:

Sharma, Devyani 2024 Chapter 6. Language acquisition across the lifespan and the emergence of new varieties Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.), pp. 127–147 | Chapter

This chapter examines the role of acquisitional processes in the emergence of new language varieties, exploring the question in two ways. We first consider how different age groups and generations contribute to the emergence of new multi-ethnolects in Europe and in comparable contemporary… read more

Sharma, Devyani, Erez Levon and Yang Ye 2022 50 years of British accent bias: Stability and lifespan change in attitudes to accents English World-Wide 43:2, pp. 135–166 | Article

Do accent biases observed half a century ago (Giles 1970) and 15 years ago (Coupland and Bishop 2007) still hold in Britain today? We provide an updated picture of national attitudes to accent labels by replicating and extending previous studies. Mean ratings and relative rankings of 38 accents… read more

Hundt, Marianne and Devyani Sharma 2014 Introduction English in the Indian Diaspora, Hundt, Marianne and Devyani Sharma (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article

Sharma, Devyani 2014 Transnational flows, language variation, and ideology English in the Indian Diaspora, Hundt, Marianne and Devyani Sharma (eds.), pp. 215–242 | Article

Migrant groups maintain ties to their region of origin to different degrees, but this variable factor has not been consistently integrated into sociolinguistic studies of diaspora communities. A balanced consideration of transnational interaction, as well as the social valuation of such ties, is… read more

Sharma, Devyani 2011 Typological diversity in New Englishes The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.), pp. 49–74 | Chapter

Sharma, Devyani 2010 Review of Sedlatschek (2009): Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change English World-Wide 31:2, pp. 209–214 | Review

Sharma, Devyani and Ashwini Deo 2010 Chapter 8. A new methodology for the study of aspect in contact: Past and progressive in Indian English Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 111–130 | Article

Sharma, Devyani 2009 Typological diversity in New Englishes The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.), pp. 170–195 | Article

Recent research has aimed to integrate the investigation of vernacular universals in native English dialects with variation in postcolonial varieties of English and cross-linguistic typology (Chambers 2004; Kortmann 2004). This article assumes that any search for universals in bilingual varieties… read more

Sharma, Devyani and John R. Rickford 2009 AAVE/creole copula absence: A critique of the imperfect learning hypothesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:1, pp. 53–90 | Article

This study confirms the robustness of the finding in the literature on African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and creole English (especially in the Caribbean) that omission of copular and auxiliary be varies systematically according to predicate type. Verbal predicates are associated with the… read more