Publications

Publication details [#53482]

Zwicky, Arnold M., T. Wasow, John R. Rickford, Elisabeth Closs Traugott and Isabelle Buchstaller. 2010. The sociolinguistics of a short-lived innovation: Tracing the development of quotative all across spoken and internet newsgroup data. Language Variation and Change 22 (2) : 191–219.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

internet newsgroup | language change | language variation | quotative | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study offers insights into recent language change concerning short-term innovations and in particular the short-lived innovation of the quotative all, in the history of English, in real and apparent time, discussing the value of internet newsgroups for research projects on real time language variation and change.