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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 ISSN 0883-2919.

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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
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
P Language and Literature > PE English
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
Dates:
DateEvent
March 2020Published
29 January 2020Available
24 September 2019Accepted
Volume: 39
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 119-134
DOI: 10.1111/weng.12451
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): "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
Date of first compliant deposit: 2 October 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 29 January 2022
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