Verbal –s

Rupp, Laura; Britain, David

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-72803-9_2

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“…We suggest that the interaction between by-suffix and by-word differentiation affects variation for some of the words in -ward(s) . Perhaps we may even assume that a broader process of analogical extension plays a role as the -s has previously lost productivity, undergone exaptation, and developed new functions in other grammatical categories, such as third person singular verbs (see Childs & Van Herk, 2014; Godfrey & Tagliamonte, 1999; Lass, 1990; Rupp & Britain, 2019). The fact that the change under investigation is characterized by particularly notable differential take-up across grammatical categories and lexical items, is likely due to the fact that this change is still in progress.…”

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New -way(s) with -ward(s): lexicalization, splitting and sociolinguistic patterns

Franco

Tagliamonte

2020

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This paper investigates the distribution of a morphological variable that has not gained much attention in the literature: adverbial -s versus -Ø. This morpheme predominantly occurs with adverbs ending in -ward(s), like forward(s), afterward(s), and inward(s), or -way(s), such as anyway(s) or halfway(s). Using a large database of sociolinguistic interviews of Ontario English and an apparent-time perspective, we show that the use of the variants changes over the twentieth century, with the adverbial suffixes -ward(s) and -way(s) behaving differently. -Ward(s) shows a trend towards -s, while most words in -way(s) increasingly take -Ø–splitting by adverbial suffix. Anyway(s) is an exception to this pattern, with a change from below towards -s, strongly conditioned by social standing. We also find evidence for lexicalization of forms without -s in phrasal verbs like to move forward. We explain these findings against the background of variationist sociolinguistic theory and principles of language change.

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New -way(s) with -ward(s): lexicalization, splitting and sociolinguistic patterns

Franco

Tagliamonte

2020

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“…Third-person present-tense zero is a relatively well known traditional dialect feature of East Anglia (for an overview, see Rupp & Britain, 2019) – ‘she go running every day’, ‘the boy bring me my paper every day’, ‘Stacey sell her jewellery on the market’. Figure 4a shows the distribution of the zero variant in the SED data collected from older rural men in the mid-20 th century.…”

Section: East Anglian English In the Edamentioning

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Blaxter²,

Leemann³

2020

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East Anglian English was the first British variety of English to be subject to dialectological scrutiny using sociolinguistic techniques (Trudgill, 1974, and his subsequent work) and since then has been subject to only sporadic investigation (e.g. Britain, 1991, 2014a, 2014b, 2015; Kingston, 2000; Straw, 2006; Amos, 2011; Potter, 2012, 2018; Butcher, 2015). Recent research has suggested that, in those few locations that have been investigated, East Anglian English is gradually losing some of its traditional dialect features, in favour of forms from the South East more generally. Kingston (2000), Britain (2014a) and Potter (2018) all found, for example, a rather steep decline in the use of East Anglia's traditional third-person present-tense zero. Furthermore, we are aware of the arrival into East Anglia of linguistic innovations from the South East of England, such as TH fronting (Trudgill, 1988; Britain, 2005; Potter, 2012) and /l/ vocalisation (Johnson & Britain, 2007; Potter, 2014), but we only know about their success in a few parts of the region – Norwich, East Suffolk and the Fens. Since Trudgill's investigations across East Anglia in the 1970s, however (e.g. Trudgill & Foxcroft, 1978), and despite a few multilocality studies (Britain, 1991, 2014a; Potter, 2018) no research has been able to provide a picture of the state of the traditional dialect across the whole region. We have therefore only a patchy understanding of the extent to which traditional dialect obsolescence, dialect levelling and innovation diffusion have impacted the dialect landscape of this region as a whole.

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Verbal –s

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New -way(s) with -ward(s): lexicalization, splitting and sociolinguistic patterns

New -way(s) with -ward(s): lexicalization, splitting and sociolinguistic patterns

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