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Publication details [#53480]

Tagliamonte, Sali A., Alexandra D'Arcy and Bridget Jankowski. 2010. Social work and linguistic systems: Marking possession in Canadian English. Language Variation and Change 22 (1) : 149–173.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | gender | markedness | possession | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, Canadian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses how variation among possession marking forms in Canadian English is conditioned by powerful sociolinguistic patterns. Have is linked to education and to female speakers, whilst less-educated men prefer have got and got.