David Blair

List of John Benjamins publications in which David Blair is involved.

Title

English in Australia

Edited by David Blair and Peter Collins

This unique collection fills a ten-year gap in studies on the nature of Australian English, and it is the first to deal exclusively with varieties of English on the Australian continent. The book contains chapters on the phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon of the dialect, and chapters on… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G26] 2001. vi, 366 pp.

Articles

Collins, Peter and David Blair 2001 Language and identity in Australia English in Australia, Blair, David and Peter Collins (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article

Peters, Pam, Peter Collins, David Blair and Alison Brierley 1988 The Australian corpus project: Findings on the distribution of some functional variants in the Australian press Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:1, pp. 22–33 | Article

The functional variants of International English are often differently distributed in the different regional standards. With evidence from the corpus of Australian English, this has already been shown for lexical variants such as will/shall, maybe/perhaps etc. In this paper evidence from the… read more

Blair, David 1980 Review of Wilkes (1978): A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms English World-Wide 1:1, pp. 147–149 | Review