James A. Walker
List of John Benjamins publications in which James A. Walker is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2215-1354 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1362
ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730
Titles
Regional Chinese in Contact
Edited by James A. Walker
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:1 (2019) v, 108 pp.
Aspect in Grammatical Variation
Edited by James A. Walker
The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 6] 2010. vi, 150 pp.
2024 Soundin(g(k)) ethnic in Toronto English World-Wide 45:3, pp. 283–310 | Article
Research on ethnolects tends to focus on qualitative salient features rather than quantitative differences in variables shared across the speech community. This study examines ethnolinguistic variation in the realization of word-final velar nasals in the English of Toronto, Canada. Over 4,000… read more
2024 Chapter 15. The sociolinguistics of urban multilingualism: Toronto and Melbourne Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.), pp. 395–413 | Chapter
Changing patterns of global migration and increasing ethnolinguistic (super)diversity hold sociolinguistic consequences for heritage/community languages (HCL) and majority languages in large urban centres. Studies in different cities have noted the existence of (multi-)ethnolects, which may… read more
2019 Order in the creole speech community: Marking past temporal reference in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Language Ecology 3:1, pp. 58–88 | Article
Creolists and variationists often conceptualize variation in multilectal speech communities as a continuum of linearly ordered linguistic features. Using the variationist comparative method, we analyze variation in past tense marking in a creole speech community (Bequia, St Vincent and the… read more
2019 Introduction: Special issue on regional Chinese in contact Regional Chinese in Contact, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Introduction
2015 Subject and object pronoun use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Prescod, Paula (ed.), pp. 67–86 | Article
This chapter examines the use of pronouns in Bequia English, considering the quantitative distribution of subject and non-subject pronoun forms in subject and object position in the spontaneous speech of 18 speakers from three villages. We contrast the case-based Standard English pronominal system… read more
2012 Grammatical variation in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:2, pp. 209–234 | Article
Despite the publication of Aceto & Williams (2003), the languages spoken in the Eastern Caribbean remain underdescribed. In this paper, we outline a project examining language use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines), based on fieldwork between 2003 and 2005, comprising over 100 hours of… read more
2012 Review of Maguire & McMahon (2011): Analysing Variation in English Diachronica 29:4, pp. 552–557 | Review
2011 Inherent variability and coexistent systems: Negation in Bequia Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency, Hinrichs, Lars and Joseph T. Farquharson (eds.), pp. 39–56 | Article
The robust linguistic variation observed on the island of Bequia (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) raises the question of whether there is a single variable linguistic system or multiple systems. We examine the distribution and conditioning of variable negation (na, ain’t or not/-n’t) in three… read more
2010 Chapter 7. Affairs of state: Defining and coding stativity in English and English-based Creole Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 95–109 | Article
2010 Chapter 1. Introduction Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2007 “There’s bears back there”: Plural existentials and vernacular universals in (Quebec) English English World-Wide 28:2, pp. 147–166 | Article
This paper uses a multivariate analysis of variable agreement in existentials with plural reference in a corpus of Quebec English to determine the status of variable agreement as a vernacular universal. Excluding the frequent invariant form there’s from analysis, both structural and processing… read more
