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Publication details [#30506]

Tagliamonte, Sali A. and Rika Ito. 2002. Think really different: Continuity and specialization in the English dual form adverbs. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6 (2) : 236–266.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adverbial | conversational analysis | language change | variability

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

1360-6441

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper uses conversation analysis to explore variation between -ly and -ø in English dual form adverbs, assessing constraint ranking, significance and relative importance of external factors (age, sex, education level) and internal factors (lexical identity, function and meaning).