Matt Hunt Gardner
List of John Benjamins publications in which Matt Hunt Gardner is involved.
Articles
2026 “We was goin’ kangaroo shooting”: Was / were variation in Australian Aboriginal English English World-Wide: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper examines was/were variation in a corpus of naturalistic Australian Aboriginal English (AE), a post-invasion contact-based variety spoken by First Nations people in Australia. While a tendency towards was levelling was attested in earlier descriptions of AE, quantitative… read more
2020 The bike, the back, and the boyfriend: Confronting the “definite article conspiracy” in Canadian and British English English World-Wide 41:2, pp. 225–254 | Article
Using comparative sociolinguistic methods, we probe the underlying mechanisms governing the variation between possessive determiners, my bike, and the definite article, the bike, in possessive contexts in two mainstream English varieties (Canadian and British English, N = 6,217). Results… read more