Alexandra D'Arcy
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexandra D'Arcy plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0172-8865 | E-ISSN 1569-9730
Book series
Title
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE
Alexandra D'Arcy
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 187] 2017. xx, 235 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
2016 Review of Dossena (2015): Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English English World-Wide 37:2, pp. 231–235 | Review
2015 At the crossroads of change: Possession, periphrasis, and prescriptivism in Victoria English Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, Collins, Peter (ed.), pp. 43–64 | Article
British and Southern hemisphere varieties of English have been shifting towards have got for stative possession, but North American varieties favour have. At the same time, have is implicated in a critical transatlantic divide, requiring do-support and resisting contraction in North America.… read more
2015 Stability, stasis and change: The longue durée of intensification Diachronica 32:4, pp. 449–493 | Article
Intensification is prone to invention and renewal, rendering it ideal for delving into mechanisms of variation and change. Recycling (via lexical replacement) is a putative longitudinal constant, yet grammatical change (via grammaticalization) is regularly invoked in the literature. It is not clear… read more
2012 Review of Walker (2010): Variation in Linguistic Systems English World-Wide 33:2, pp. 205–209 | Review
2011 Review of Clarke (2010): Newfoundland and Labrador English English World-Wide 32:3, pp. 369–373 | Review
2007 The modals of obligation/necessity in Canadian perspective English World-Wide 28:1, pp. 47–87 | Article
The modal verbs of English have been undergoing change since the Late Old English and Early Middle English periods. Recent research suggests dramatic recent developments, particularly in American English. In this paper, we focus on the encoding of obligation/necessity, which involves the layering… read more