Maya Ravindranath Abtahian
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maya Ravindranath Abtahian plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2215-1354 | E-ISSN 2215-1362
Title
Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia
Edited by Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Abigail C. Cohn
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 (2021) v, 132 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia: An introduction Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 83–94 | Introduction
2021 Jakarta Indonesian first-person singular pronouns: Form, function and variation Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 185–214 | Article
Jakarta Indonesian is a colloquial variety of Indonesian spoken primarily in Indonesia’s capital, where it was originally a contact variety between Betawi, the local variety of Malay, and Standard Indonesian. Like other varieties of Indonesian, Jakarta Indonesian is a language with a relatively… read more
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
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
2020 Style, identity and language shift Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages, Horesh, Uri, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 17–38 | Article
This study is an examination of style-shifting in the speech of a single interviewer conducting sociolinguistic interviews in Garifuna (Arawak), an endangered language spoken in Belize and along the eastern coast of Central America. It provides a case study of intraspeaker variation in the… read more
2017 Language shift, endangerment and prestige: Kriol and Garifuna in Hopkins, Belize Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:2, pp. 339–364 | Article
This paper examines a scenario of possible language shift in the multilingual village of Hopkins, where the two most commonly used languages are both ‘minority’ languages: Garifuna, now endangered in many of the communities where it was once spoken, and Belizean Creole (Kriol), an unofficial… read more