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Strelluf, Christopher (2020) needs+PAST PARTICIPLE in regional Englishes on Twitter. World Englishes, 39 (1). pp. 119-134. doi:10.1111/weng.12451
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12451
Abstract
The use of needs with a past participle (e.g., ‘The car needs washed’) has been identified as a feature of the US Midland, and of Englishes in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and northern England. However, linguists have generally not been able to study needs+PAST in natural language data. This study reports from a large corpus of needs+PAST productions built from tweets in 20 US cities, 17 UK cities, and 13 other cities. It confirms needs+PAST as a productive feature of Scotland, Belfast, Newcastle, and the US Midland, and supports claims that the
construction spread via immigration. In doing so, it validates studies based on spurious elicitations of grammaticality judgments, while also demonstrating new techniques to study low-frequency linguistic variables. It provides quantitative evidence of the extent to which a settler variety of English may leave an imprint of itself over several centuries, and of the durability of regional dialect boundaries.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PE English |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | English language -- Participle, English language -- Dialects, Need (Psychology), Online social networks | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | World Englishes | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0883-2919 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 39 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 119-134 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/weng.12451 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Strelluf, C. needs+PAST PARTICIPLE in regional Englishes on Twitter. World Englishes. 2020; 1– 16. which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12451. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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