Ruth King

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ruth King is involved.

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Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018

Edited by Gabriela Alboiu and Ruth King

This volume brings together selected papers from the 48th annual Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, held at York University in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. It presents original research on a wide variety of Romance languages both past (Latin, Old Catalan, Old Iberian Romance, Old… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 360] 2022. vii, 275 pp.

The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing: A Prince Edward Island French case study

Ruth King

This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 14 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 209] 2000. xvi, 241 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Alboiu, Gabriela and Ruth King 2022 Introduction Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018, Alboiu, Gabriela and Ruth King (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter

Comeau, Philip, Ruth King and Carmen L. LeBlanc 2022 Continuity and change in the evolution of French yes-no questions: A cross-variety perspective Diachronica 39:5, pp. 616–657 | Article

This present study contributes to research on the structure of yes-no questions in French. Informed by previous historical linguistic research tracing developments from the Old French period onwards, we focus on qualitative analysis of grammatical commentary and variationist analysis of Acadian… read more

King, Ruth 2008 Chiac in context: Overview and evaluation of Acadie's Joual Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 137–178 | Article

I argue that there is little evidence that chiac, an often stigmatized variety of Acadian French spoken in the urban area of Moncton, New Brunswick, differs dramatically from a number of lesser known Acadian varieties in terms of the effects of language contact; and that the degree of English… read more

King, Ruth 2005 Crossing grammatical borders: Tracing the path of contact-induced linguistic change Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002, Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä (eds.), pp. 233–251 | Article

King, Ruth 2005 Morphosyntactic variation and theory: Subject-verb agreement in Acadian French Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social, Cornips, Leonie and Karen P. Corrigan (eds.), pp. 199–229 | Article

King, Ruth 2004 Review of Chambers, Trudgill & Schilling-Estes (2002): The Handbook of Language Variation and Change Diachronica 21:1, pp. 204–208 | Review