Shana Poplack
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shana Poplack is involved.
2022 How to mix: Confronting “mixed” NP models and bilinguals’ choices Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:5, pp. 628–656 | Article
The widespread occurrence of nouns in one language with a determiner in the other, often referred to as mixed NPs, has generated much theorizing and debate. Since both a syntactic account based on abstract features of the determiner and an account highlighting the notion of a Matrix language… read more
2018 Categories of grammar and categories of speech: When the quest for symmetry meets inherent variability Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry: Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy, Shin, Naomi and Daniel Erker (eds.), pp. 7–34 | Chapter
This chapter tracks the response to morphosyntactic variability in a massive corpus of prescriptive grammars of French dating from the 16th century through the present, and relates it to current mainstream approaches. Analysis shows that although variant forms have been recognized since the… read more
2006 Modelling linguistic change. The past and the present of the future in Brazilian Portuguese Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005, Hinskens, Frans (ed.), pp. 169–199 | Article
2001 Variability, frequency, and productivity in the irrealis domain of French Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 405–428 | Article
1997 The sociolinguistics dynamics of apparent convergence Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 285–310 | Article
1997 Plural Marking Patterns in Nigerian Pidgin English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:1, pp. 103–129 | Article
This paper examines the pluralization system of Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE). Extrapolating from proposals in the literature on English-based créoles as well as other vernaculars, we utilize quantitative methodology to assess the contribution of syntactic, semantic, and phonological features to… read more
1993 Variation theory and language contact: concepts, methods and data American Dialect Research: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889–1989, Preston, Dennis R. (ed.), pp. 251–286 | Article
1993 African American English in the diaspora: Evidence from oldline Nova Scotians Focus on Canada, Clarke, Sandra (ed.), pp. 109–150 | Article
1993 The Zero-Marked Verb: Testing the Creole Hypothesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 8:2, pp. 171–206 | Article
This paper examines the past temporal reference system in two data sets representing "early" Black English: Sarnana and the Ex-slave Recordings, with a view to discovering the structure underlying variable use of overt verbal morphology. Extrapolating from proposals in the literature on the… read more
1992 The inherent variability of the French Subjunctive Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XIX, Ohio State University, April 21–23, 1989, Laeufer, Christiane and Terrell A. Morgan (eds.), pp. 235–266 | Article
1991 There’s No Tense Like the Present: Verbal — S Inflection in Early Black English The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary, Bailey, Guy, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila (eds.), pp. 275–326 | Article
1989 The care and handling of a mega-corpus: The Ottawa-Hull French project Language Change and Variation, Fasold, Ralph W. and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), pp. 411–450 | Article
1986 Going through (L) in Canadian French Diversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 173–198 | Article