Grammatical variation and change in Jersey English
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Grammatical variation and change in Jersey English
（Varieties of English around the world, v. G48）
J. Benjamins, c2014
- : Hb
Available at 12 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-234) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of spoken material containing both present-day sociolinguistic and archive data, it thereby reveals an intricate network of variation and change in this language-shift variety. The study adopts a cross-varietal approach for its analyses, which enables a first more systematic comparison between the Englishes spoken on Jersey, on its sister island Guernsey and beyond. In addition, it discusses the implications of identity aspects for language use in Jersey. The book will therefore be of major interest to any researcher or student working in the areas of language variation and change, language contact or dialectology and to those interested in sociolinguistic methodology and the relationships between language and identity.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. List of maps, figures and tables
- 3. Chapter 1. Introduction
- 4. Chapter 2. Theoretical foundations
- 5. Chapter 3. Jersey English in context
- 6. Chapter 4. Methods and data
- 7. Chapter 5. Discourse marker eh
- 8. Chapter 6. Features of the Jersey English verb phrase
- 9. Chapter 7. Other grammatical features: An overview
- 10. Chapter 8. Standardization, levelling and identity in Jersey: A bird's eye perspective
- 11. Chapter 9. Conclusion
- 12. References
- 13. Appendix 1. Written questionnaire
- 14. Appendix 2. Excerpt from a transcript
- 15. Index
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