Isabelle Buchstaller

List of John Benjamins publications for which Isabelle Buchstaller plays a role.

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Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters

Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily

[Creole Language Library, 47] 2014. v, 178 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics

Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives

Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Ingrid van Alphen

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Typology
In 2016, a special issue of the Linguistic Landscapes: An International Journal explored the nexus between LL and collective memory studies, calling for more research at the interface of these disciplines. Our analysis adds to recent studies by exploring the ways in which commemorative street… read more
Buchstaller, Isabelle, Adam Mearns, Anja Auer and Anne Krause-Lerche 2022 Exploring age-related changes in the realisation of (t): Panel research from TynesideEnglish World-Wide 43:3, pp. 297–329 | Article
An understanding of linguistic heterogeneity in older speakers is crucial for the study of language variation and change. To date, intra-speaker malleability in older populations remains under-researched, in varieties of English and more generally. This paper contributes panel data to the… read more
Buchstaller, Isabelle 2020 (h) in Marshallese EnglishVariation in the Pacific: Part I, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 222–249 | Article
This paper explores the sociolinguistic patterning of glottal choices in the English spoken in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), a variety that variationist research has thus far eschewed. The analysis suggests that the schooling background of the speaker is the most crucial determinant… read more
Buchstaller, Isabelle and Beat Siebenhaar 2017 IntroductionLanguage Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015, Buchstaller, Isabelle and Beat Siebenhaar (eds.), pp. vii–xvi | Chapter
Buchstaller, Isabelle and Karen P. Corrigan 2015 Morphosyntactic features of Northern EnglishResearching Northern English, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 71–98 | Article
This chapter examines grammatical features in Northern varieties of English. With the notable exception of Kortmann and Szmrecsanyi (2004), typologies of English dialects adduce dialect regions according to phonological or lexical criteria. The dearth of systematic knowledge about features “above… read more
Almoaily, Mohammad, Anders Holmberg and Isabelle Buchstaller 2014 IntroductionPidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters, Buchstaller, Isabelle, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
Buchstaller, Isabelle and Ingrid van Alphen 2012 Preface: Introductory remarks on new and old quotativesQuotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives, Buchstaller, Isabelle and Ingrid van Alphen (eds.), pp. xi–xxx | Preface
Barnfield, Katie and Isabelle Buchstaller 2010 Intensifiers on Tyneside: Longitudinal developments and new trendsEnglish World-Wide 31:3, pp. 252–287 | Article
We report on longitudinal changes in the system of intensification in an innovative corpus that spans five decades of dialectal speech. Our analyses allow us — for the first time in a British context — to trace the quantitative development in the variable across four generations. Longitudinal… read more
Buchstaller, Isabelle 2008 The localization of global linguistic variantsEnglish World-Wide 29:1, pp. 15–44 | Article
Globalization has been defined as the process whereby “events happening in one place … impact upon many other places, often remote in time and space” (Urry 2003: 39). This paper examines the impact of two globally available linguistic resources — the quotatives be like and go — in two spatially… read more