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Publication details [#57761]

Meyerhoff, Miriam and James. A. Walker. 2013. An existential problem: The sociolinguistic monitor and variation in existential constructions on Bequia (St. Vincent and the Grenadines). Language in Society 42 (4) : 407–428.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | language variation | rural community | sociolinguistics | urban community

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper draws on Labov's “sociolinguistic monitor,” to explore verb form variations in existential constructions in a corpus of spontaneous English from Bequia, comparing urban sojourners with their home village norms.