Benjamin Purser

List of John Benjamins publications for which Benjamin Purser plays a role.

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Travis, Catherine E., James Grama and Benjamin Purser 2023 Stability and change in (ing): Ethnic and grammatical variation over time in Australian EnglishEnglish World-Wide 44:3, pp. 435–469 | Article
Work on variable (ing) has highlighted its long-term stability and shared conditioning across English varieties. Here, we ask whether similar stability and conditioning holds in Australian English over time and across ethnicity. The data come from sociolinguistic interviews with 204 Australians… read more