List of contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Exploring the dynamics of linguistic variation through public and private corpora 1
5. Part I. Creating discourse
6. Introduction 13
7. ' And so now …': The grammaticalisation and (inter)subjectification of now 17
8. Self-repetition in spoken English discourse 37
9. Modal adverbs in interaction – obviously and definitely in adolescent speech 61
10. Pressing -ing into service: I don't want you coming around here any more 85
11. Part II. Moving across varieties
12. Introduction 101
13. Conversations from the speech community: Exploring language variation in synchronic dialect corpora 107
14. The English modals and semi-modals: Regional and stylistic variation 129
15. Patterns of negation: The relationship between NO and NOT in regional varieties of English 147
16. Verb-complementational profiles across varieties of English: Comparing verb classes in Indian English and British English 163
17. Angloversals? Concord and interrogatives in contact varieties of English 183
18. South Pacific Englishes – Unity and diversity in the usage of the present perfect 203
19. Part III. Levelling out variability
20. Introduction 223
21. Feature loss in 19th century Irish English 229
22. The written wor(l)ds of men and women in early white Australia 245
23. The progressive and phrasal verbs: Evidence of colloquialization in nineteenth-century English? 269
24. Probabilistic determinants of genitive variation in spoken and written English: A multivariate comparison across time, space, and genres 291
25. Her daughter's being taken into care or her daughter being taken …? Genitive and common-case marking of subjects of verbal gerund clauses in Present-day English 311
26. Subject index 335