Miriam Meyerhoff
List of John Benjamins publications in which Miriam Meyerhoff is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2215-1354 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1362
ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730
Book series
Variation in the Pacific: Part II
Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:1 (2021) v, 82 pp.
Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages
Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) v, 130 pp.
Variation in the Pacific: Part I
Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.
Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff
Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy
This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 24] 2008. ix, 365 pp.
2021 Special issue Variation in the Pacific Variation in the Pacific: Part II, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), p. | Miscellaneous
2020 Special issue Variation in the Pacific Variation in the Pacific: Part I, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), p. | Miscellaneous
2020 Introduction: Variation in the Pacific Variation in the Pacific: Part I, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 151–159 | Introduction
2020 Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages, Horesh, Uri, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Introduction
Style, in the study of variation and change, is intimately linked with broader questions about linguistic innovation and change, standards, social norms, and individual speakers’ stances. This article examines style when applied to lesser-studied languages. Style is both (i) the product of… 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
2017 A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables: Big issues with smaller samples in language variation Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015, Buchstaller, Isabelle and Beat Siebenhaar (eds.), pp. 23–46 | Chapter
We undertake a detailed analysis of a sample of over 10,000 utterances from 18 speakers in a corpus of Bequia English and apply constrained cluster analysis to discern patterns that identify the linguistic signatures for different villages and to see how individuals pattern in relation to the rest… read more
2015 Turning variation on its head: Analysing subject prefixes in Nkep (Vanuatu) for language documentation Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1:1, pp. 78–108 | Article
This paper uses variationist methods to attack a descriptive problem: by looking at the distribution of a typologically unusual subject prefix (tem- in realis and t- in irrealis) in a set of narrative texts recorded in Nkep, the language of Hog Harbour (Vanuatu), it explores the extent to which… read more
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
2013 Syntactic variation and change: The variationist framework and language contact The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings, Léglise, Isabelle and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 23–52 | Article
This chapter introduces linguistic variation, specifically contact-induced language variation, from a variationist point of view. It shows that a focus on social and linguistic constraints on variation using statistical tools provides clues for distinguishing different processes of transfer. Taking… 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
2011 Teenagers’ acquisition of variation: A comparison of locally-born and migrant teens’ realisation of English (ing) in Edinburgh and London English World-Wide 32:2, pp. 206–236 | Article
In recent years, the UK has experienced unparalleled numbers of migrants from Eastern Europe, particularly Poland. Many migrants came with their families. We examined variation in the English spoken by adolescent Polish migrants in Edinburgh and London. We asked: to what extent are teenage Polish… read more
2009 16. Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Stanford, James N. and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 369–396 | Article
The source of and, hence, principal factors constraining, several variables in Bislama, an English-lexified Pacific creole, remain the subject of some dispute. This chapter uses quantitative methods to evaluate the strength of claims that variable presence/absence of arguments in Bislama is… read more
2008 Empirical problems with domain-based notions of "simple" Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 327–355 | Article
This chapter addresses the on-going debate about the relative "simplicity" of creole languages. It proposes that an evaluation of simplicity/complexity must consider not only categorical features of a language but also probabilistic ones, because (it argues) there is a good deal of linguistic… read more
2008 Introduction: Social lives in language Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2002 15. All the same? The emergence of complementizers in Bislama Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom and Manfred von Roncador (eds.), pp. 341–359 | Chapter
1993 Lexical Shift in Working Class New Zealnd English: Variation in the Use of Lexical Pairs English World-Wide 14:2, pp. 231–248 | Article