{"title":"Supper or dinner?","authors":"Bridget L. Jankowski, Sali A. Tagliamonte","doi":"10.1075/EWW.00027.JAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/EWW.00027.JAN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The English words for daily meals constitute a complex lexical variable conditioned by social and linguistic\u0000 factors. Comparative sociolinguistic analysis of 884 speakers from more than a dozen locations in Ontario, Canada reveals a\u0000 synchronic system with social correlates that are reflexes of the British and American founder populations of the province.\u0000 Toronto and Loyalist settlements in southern Ontario use the highest rates of dinner while northerners with\u0000 European and Scots-Irish roots use supper. Dinner is taking over as the dominant form among younger speakers,\u0000 exposing a cascade pattern (Trudgill 1972; Labov\u0000 2007) that is consistent with sociolinguistic typology (Trudgill 2011).","PeriodicalId":45502,"journal":{"name":"English World-Wide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/EWW.00027.JAN","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41606551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grammaticalization of semi-modals of necessity in Asian Englishes","authors":"Lucía Loureiro-Porto","doi":"10.1075/EWW.00025.LOU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/EWW.00025.LOU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The decline of central modal must and the increase in frequency of the semi-modals have\u0000 (got) to, need (to), and want to is one of the most conspicuous grammatical changes that\u0000 inner-circle varieties of English underwent in the second half of the 20th century. Such a replacement correlates with the\u0000 increasing grammaticalization of the semi-modals in terms of semantic and quantitative developments. The current paper explores\u0000 the differential grammaticalization of these items in four Asian varieties of English – those spoken in India, Hong Kong,\u0000 Singapore, and the Philippines – with the aim of building a grammaticalization index that will allow us to measure the extent to\u0000 which the replacement of modal must with the semi-modals is completed in each of the varieties as compared to\u0000 British English. After analyzing data from the private dialogue sections of the corresponding ICE corpora, Hong Kong English is\u0000 shown to be the variety in which the replacement is closest to British English, followed by the Philippines, Singapore and\u0000 India.","PeriodicalId":45502,"journal":{"name":"English World-Wide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/EWW.00025.LOU","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49140716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jacques Arends. 2015. Language and Slavery: A Social and Linguistic History of the Suriname\u0000 Creoles","authors":"D. Perez","doi":"10.1075/EWW.00029.PER","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/EWW.00029.PER","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews Language and Slavery: A Social and Linguistic History of the Suriname Creoles 105.00978-90-272-5276-0","PeriodicalId":45502,"journal":{"name":"English World-Wide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43284958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}