Susanne Wagner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Susanne Wagner plays a role.
Articles
2019 Why very good in India might be pretty good in North America: Amplifier-adjective 2-grams in Global Englishes International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:4, pp. 445–489 | Article
Situated at the interface of several sub-disciplines (corpus linguistics, World Englishes, variationist sociolinguistics), this study investigates patterns of adjectival amplification (very good, so glad, pretty cool) in the Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE). It highlights regional… read more
2007 Unstressed periphrastic do — from Southwest England to Newfoundland? English World-Wide 28:3, pp. 249–278 | Article
This article discusses possible reasons for the (near-)absence of a feature from Newfoundland Vernacular English (NVE) that was present in both of its major donor dialects, namely the varieties of Southwest (SW) England and Ireland. Unstressed periphrastic do, the feature under investigation, is… read more