Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English

Name: Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English
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Erschienen am 23. April 2014

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Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of maps, figures and tables
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical foundations
2.1 Linguistic variation and change: Fields and methods
2.2 Morphological and syntactic variation
2.3 Linguistic change
2.4 Linguistic contact
2.5 Identity and attitudes
3. Jersey English in context
3.1 Previous research
3.1.1 Non-linguistic research relevant to the study
3.1.2 Research on Channel Island French
3.1.3 Research on Channel Island English
3.2 Socio-historical overview and sociolinguistic situation today
4. Methods and data
4.1 Research design
4.1.1 Representativeness and judgement sample
4.1.2 Speaker categories
Nativeness
Linguistic background
Age
Gender and ethnicity
Social background
4.2 Data collection
4.2.1 Sociolinguistic interviews
4.2.2 Written questionnaires
4.2.3 Oral history recordings
4.2.4 Participant observation
4.2.5 Additional data
4.3 Data transcription
4.4 Description and characteristics of the corpus of spoken Jersey English
4.4.1 The Jersey Interview Corpus (JIC)
4.4.2 The Jersey Archive Corpus (JAC) and its additional component (JACa)
4.5 Analyses and statistical testing
4.6 Summary
5. Discourse marker eh
5.1 The particle eh
5.2 Syntactic contexts and pragmatic functions
5.3 Distribution of eh in Jersey English
5.3.1 Distribution of eh by age
5.3.2 Eh in comparison with other discourse markers
5.3.3 Distribution of eh by education and occupation
5.3.4 Distribution of eh by gender
5.4 Eh - a contact phenomenon?
5.5 Comparison with eh in Guernsey English
5.6 Comparison with eh in British English
5.7 Eh - an identity marker?
5.8 Summary and conclusion
6. Features of the Jersey English verb phrase
6.1 I went and buy them: Verb-and-verb constructions
6.1.1 Previous findings on verb-and-verb constructions in standard English
6.1.2 Previous findings on FAP in Channel Island English
6.1.3 Findings on FAP in Jersey English
6.1.3.1 Characteristics of FAP in Jersey English
6.1.3.2 Sociolinguistic distribution of FAP in Jersey English
6.1.4 FAP - A contact phenomenon?
6.1.5 Summary and conclusion
6.2 There's a lot of Jersey cows: Agreement in existential there-constructions
6.2.1 Agreement in existential there-constructions across English varieties
6.2.2 Previous research on agreement in existentials in Channel Island English
6.2.3 Findings on agreement in existential there-constructions in Jersey English
6.2.3.1 Linguistic constraints
6.2.3.2 Sociolinguistic distribution
6.2.4 Singular forms of BE in plural there-existentials - A contact phenomenon?
6.2.5 Summary and conclusion
6.3 Further observations on the verb phrase
6.3.1 Tense and aspect
6.3.2 Agreement
6.3.3 Verb morphology
7. Other grammatical features: An overview
7.1 Relative clauses
7.1.1 Strategies
7.1.2 Frequencies and distribution
7.2 Emphasis
7.2.1 Emphatic pronouns
7.2.2 Pronominal apposition
7.2.3 Demonstrative them
7.2.4 Adjectival plenty
7.2.5 Assertive yet
7.2.6 Emphatic là
7.2.7 Emphatic that one
7.2.8 Demonstrative this here/that here
7.2.9 But yes
7.3 Prepositional usage
7.4 Use of the definite article
7.5 Negation
7.6 Absence of 's in the local genitive
7.7 She/her and he/him used for inanimate referents
7.8 After as a time adverbial
7.9 If-deletion in conditional clauses
7.10 Analytic vs. synthetic comparative forms
7.11 As what/than what in comparative sentences
7.12 Absence of plural marking
7.13 Formation of questions
7.14 Adverbs having the same form as adjectives
7.15 Like as a focussing device, a discourse marker and a quotative particle
7.16 Pronominal usage
7.17 Jersey English and Guernsey English morphosyntax in comparison
7.18 Summary and conclusion
8. Standardization, levelling and identity in Jersey: A bird's eye perspective
8.1 Patterns of standardization
8.2 Patterns of levelling
8.3 Motivations behind standardization and levelling in Jersey English
8.4 Identity and attitudes in Jersey
8.5 Implications of identity aspects for Jersey English
8.6 Summary and conclusion
9. Conclusion
Summary of main findings
Answers to research questions
A note on methodology
Outlook
References
Appendix 1: Written questionnaire
Appendix 2: Excerpt from a transcript (interview with speaker JIC12f1935)
Index

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