119. Varieties of English: Canadian English in real-time perspective

take up #9as a semantic isogloss on the Canada‐US border

“…These data identified the Canadian Prairies as a key area for closer study, for which 186 respondents from Edmonton, Alberta, were collected in the spring of 2011 by undergraduate student Emily Hitz (). In 2012, two smaller samples were collected from Pennsylvania (Dollinger ) and the UK Midlands (Dollinger ) to address pending questions.…”

“…While the linguistic autonomy of CanE has been addressed by a number of authors, it is by no means the focus of work on the variety (Boberg : 1–54 for synchronic work; Dollinger for diachronic work). First unambiguous comments about autonomy, with precursors in the late 19th century, were found in the 1920s and 1930s (Avis ), while measurable differences are demonstrable as early as the early 19th century (Dollinger : 267–85).…”

“…I define Standard Canadian English socially, building from Chambers (: 252), as the dialect of Anglophone or multilingual (English plus) residents in Canada that are second‐generation or later ( = born in Canada), who live in urban centres and are members of the middle class. Standard Canadian English is de facto the only variety for which a significant number of studies have been carried out (Avis , Chambers , Boberg , Dollinger for overviews). Standard Canadian English is the CanE variety on which almost all existing studies are based.…”

Book Review: Earlier North American Englishes. Varieties of English Around the World

“…As Kytö and Siebers remark (6), the increasing availability of electronic resources representing the nineteenth century goes some way to explaining why that period has garnered rather more scholarly attention in historical studies of American English compared to earlier centuries. By contrast, the compilation of historical corpora representing pre-twentieth-century Canadian English remains very much a nascent enterprise (Dollinger 2012(Dollinger :1865.…”