Educated Fiji English: Lexico-grammar and variety status
Lena Zipp
[Varieties of English Around the World, G47] 2014. xvii, 230 pp.
Lena Zipp
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lena Zipp plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2019 On the relevance of voice quality in contact varieties: Non-modal phonation type in Afro-Yungueño Spanish Language Ecology 3:1, pp. 3–27 | Article
This paper focuses on the role of voice quality variation in the system of a contact language, Afro-Yungueño Spanish, a restructured variety of Spanish spoken in the Bolivian Yungas valleys. Based on case studies of naturally occurring conversation between multiple speakers, we show that certain… read more
2016 Review of Bell (2014): The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics English World-Wide 37:1, pp. 91–96 | Review
2016 English in San Francisco Chinatown: Indexing identity with speech rhythm? World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations, Seoane, Elena and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.), pp. 205–228 | Article
This study reports on the methodological challenges of determining and quantifying ethnic identity in questionnaire and interview data from second-generation members of the San Francisco Chinatown community, and linking these identity scores to the use of durational characteristics that we argue… read more
2014 Indo-Fijian English: Linguistic diaspora or endonormative stabilization? English in the Indian Diaspora, Hundt, Marianne and Devyani Sharma (eds.), pp. 187–213 | Article
This paper first traces the history and sociolinguistic situation of Fiji’s well-established and influential Indian diaspora. It then weighs support for the development of endocentric norms in the national second language variety of English, Fiji English, against diasporic influence by combining… read more
2012 Particle verbs across first and second language varieties of English Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, Hundt, Marianne and Ulrike Gut (eds.), pp. 167–196 | Article
Particle verbs are a very common and highly productive feature at the lexis-grammar interface and are thus particularly prone to undergoing structural nativization resulting in variety-specific usage patterns of frequency and innovation. In addition, particle verbs have been noted to display… read more