Brandon Cooper

List of John Benjamins publications for which Brandon Cooper plays a role.

Article

Montgomery, Michael, Michael Ellis and Brandon Cooper 2014 When did Southern American English really begin? Testing Bailey’s HypothesisThe Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 331–348 | Article
This paper uses the Corpus of American Civil War Letters, comprising several thousand documents written by minimally literate privates in the conflict, to analyze grammatical features such as you-all and fixing to. The authors respond to the proposal of Bailey (1997) that white Southern American… read more