Stephen Levey
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephen Levey is involved.
2022 Palestinian Arabic in the diaspora: Assessing the case for contact-induced change Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019, Ali, Abdel-Khalig and Atiqa Hachimi (eds.), pp. 3–26 | Chapter
Using a comparative sociolinguistic framework, the present investigation addresses contact between Palestinian and Lebanese Arabic in Beirut. The investigation targets the variable raising of /a:/ to [e:] in word-medial position, claimed to be a stereotypical feature of Lebanese Arabic, which is… read more
2019 Going global and sounding local: Quotative variation and change in L1 and L2 speakers of Irish (Dublin) English English World-Wide 40:1, pp. 54–81 | Article
We chart the incursion of quotative be like into Dublin English, drawing comparisons with similar developments in urban Canadian English as well as with diachronic benchmarks representing vernacular Irish English. Quantitative analysis reveals that be like is the lead variant in the quotative… read more
2017 A big city perspective on come/came variation: Evidence from London, U.K. English World-Wide 38:2, pp. 181–210 | Article
This study examines the alternation between non-standard preterite come and its standard counterpart came in London English. A major component of the investigation centers on the comparison of come/came variation in the speech of Anglo (British-heritage) and non-Anglo (migrant-heritage) youth.… read more
2014 Between you and I: Case variation in coordinate noun phrases in Canadian English English World-Wide 35:2, pp. 193–224 | Article
Variable case marking of pronouns in coordinate noun phrases (CoNPs) is a well-documented phenomenon which has elicited prescriptive censure for centuries. Drawing on the framework of variationist sociolinguistics, this study presents a detailed quantitative analysis of variable case marking in… read more
2010 Review of Kortmann & Upton (2008): Varieties of English
The British Isles English World-Wide 31:1, pp. 83–89 | Review
2006 Visiting London relatives English World-Wide 27:1, pp. 45–70 | Article
This small-scale study focuses on variation in the relative marker paradigm in the vernacular of a group of preadolescents recorded in the Greater London area. The distributional and multivariate analyses of variation in relative marker usage in restrictive relative clauses reveal that the wh-forms… read more