Although varieties of North American English have come in for a good deal of linguistic scrutiny in recent years, the vast majority of published works have dealt with American rather than Canadian English. This volume constitutes a welcome addition to our linguistic knowledge of English-speaking… read more
Irish English is well-known for its extensive range of perfect equivalents, including the after-perfect and the medial-object perfect. Yet the literature displays no consensus on either the precise semantics of the former or the origins of the latter (along with those of the “extended present”, the… read more
This paper documents a case of new dialect formation in the Canadian aboriginal community of Sheshatshiu, Labrador, established as a permanent settlement in 1959. It examines the applicability of a quantitative variationist approach to the investigation of language change and cross-generational… read more