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Alex D’arcy

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ID1259957
NOMBREAlex D’arcy
NOMBRESAlex
APELLIDOD’arcy
FIRMAD’ARCY A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Victoria
ORCID0000-0002-4316-350X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS28
TOTAL DE CITAS402
TOTAL COMO AUTOR28
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2004
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H11
  • A Welcome and a Thank You

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Peter Grund et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of English Linguistics•2024

  • Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Peter J Grund et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of English Linguistics•2022

  • Ethics in Linguistics

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Emily M Bender•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Linguistics•2022•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 16

    In linguistics, ethics has long encompassed matters typically covered under regulatory oversight, but it is increasingly understood as relational and reciprocal, conferring responsibilities and obligations that extend beyond the work produced for other researchers. Those who study language are also coming to interrogate their professional responsibilities not only in how research is done but also in how research is conceived, framed, reported, di…

  • American Speech, Settler Colonialism, and a View from a Place Currently Called Canada

    Derek Denis, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2022•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 15

  • Peer Review in Linguistics Journals

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language•2021

    We present new data on peer review practices in linguistics journals, reporting the results of an online survey of editors. This paper aims to increase understanding of the processes and practices of peer review for everyone involved—editors, authors, reviewers, and readers. Apprehending concretely how peer review happens from beginning to end and how editors think about it should help to demystify the process, especially for graduate students an…

  • Peer review in linguistics journals

    Alex D’arcy, Joseph Salmons•ARTICLE•Language•2021

  • Hedge Words

    Open Access•Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Jena Barchas‐lichtenstein et al.•OTHER•The International Encyclopedia of…•2020

    Despite popular conceptions of hedges as small, meaningless words that detract rather than add to the meaning of a conversational exchange, they take many forms, from words such as just to full clauses and utterances. As a discursive strategy, hedging serves two main functions: accountability and politeness. That is, hedging lessens the speaker's commitment to the truth of an utterance's content, and it softens otherwise face‐threatening acts. Th…

  • Deriving Homogeneity in a Settler Colonial Variety of English

    Derek Denis, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2019•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 51

    Canadian English (CanE) is argued to present a textbook example of dialectological homogeneity. Its largely undifferentiated urban structure is attributed to source input, as a consequence of a shared founder effect. This outcome is predicted by the sociohistorical realities of settler colonialism but remains unexplored in diachronic perspective. The recent construction of large diachronic corpora of regional CanE varieties enables direct compari…

  • Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function

    Open Access•Martina Wiltschko, Derek Denis et al.•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2018•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 31

    Despite recent advances (e.g. Cheshire 2007; Pichler 2010; Denis 2015), discourse-pragmatic variables continue to challenge variationist theory and methods. An overarching dilemma concerns multifunctionality, raising difficulties for semantic equivalency and the circumscription of the variable context. In this article we present a case study to illustrate that deconstructing a discourse-pragmatic marker into its composite parts reveals clear crit…

  • Settler Colonial Englishes Are Distinct from Postcolonial Englishes

    Derek Denis, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2018•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 54

    In this position paper, we take up David Deterding's 2008 call to think more carefully about the differences across varieties of English that have developed as a product of settler influence (e.g., Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, United States) versus those in which the Indigenous languages continue to influence lexis, phonology, morphosyntax, and discourse-pragmatics (e.g., India, Nigeria, Singapore). For us, this distinction is fundamentally…

  • Outliers, impact, and rationalization in linguistic change

    Open Access•Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language•2016•Citada por: 13

    Quotative be like is a rapid global innovation, yet no evidence pinpoints when it arose, under what circumstances, or the consequences of its emergence. Using a data set spanning four cities and two hemispheres, we document systemic regularity across time and space. The results force us to confront three issues: the uniformitarian principle, the criterion of face-to-face contact in the diffusion of language change, and the nature of language as a…

  • Stability, stasis and change

    Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy•ARTICLE•Diachronica•2015

    Intensification is prone to invention and renewal, rendering it ideal for delving into mechanisms of variation and change. Recycling (via lexical replacement) is a putative longitudinal constant, yet grammatical change (via grammaticalization) is regularly invoked in the literature. It is not clear how these complement each other. To probe this issue, this paper operationalizes variationist methods to examine intensification in the Origins of New…

  • Quotation and Advances in Understanding Syntactic Systems

    Alex D’arcy•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Linguistics•2015•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 24

    At first glance, the syntax of quotation appears to be a rather straightforward matter of transitivity and complementation. However, quotation raises a number of intriguing and perplexing questions for the functioning, structure, and development of syntactic systems, and for their interactions with the semantic–interpretative interface. The purpose of this review is to articulate and exemplify these challenges as raised in the literature of vario…

  • Not always variable

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2015•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 17

    Written and spoken language are known to differ substantially (Biber, 1988; 1995; Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 1999). Standard written language is highly uniform and governed by prescription, whereas the vernacular is most revealing of structured heterogeneity (Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog, 1968). We focus on four English morphosyntactic variables that problematize assumptions about the nature of variation in the vernacular: the geni…

  • Asymmetrical trajectories

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2013•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 5

    The set of English [+human] pronominal quantifiers has been variable for at least 500 years, with the compound forms – body and – one competing since Middle and Early Modern English. This change has still to run its course (cf. Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg, 2003:78). Using corpora of historical texts, we track the development of these variants alongside the demise of the earlier variant – man . Then, drawing on contemporary and regionally diver…

  • The diachrony of quotation

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2012•Citada por: 19•Referencias: 25

    Much recent work on English direct quotation assumes that the system is undergoing rapid and large-scale change via the emergence of “innovative” forms such as be like . This view is supported by synchronic evidence, but the dearth of diachronic evidence forces reconsideration of this assumption. Drawing on data representing the full history of New Zealand English, this paper presents a variationist analysis of the quotative system, providing a c…

  • Ethics and social media

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2012•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 25

    As a popular agora for writing identity into being, the networked public of social media sites presents exciting and unprecedented possibilities for sociolinguistic research. At the same time, these sites raise a wealth of unfamiliar methodological and ethical issues, and debate concerning appropriate ethical measures for research targeting online discourse communities is emergent. One of the most pressing debates concerns the visibility of onlin…

  • Social work and linguistic systems

    Open Access•Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2010•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 9

    The system of stative possession has been subject to variation and change since at least the Early Modern period, with have got rising in frequency in British and Antipodean varieties of English. In Canadian English, as represented by data from the largest city, Toronto, have predominates. Nonetheless, the full set of constraints previously reported for this variable are operative, corroborating the longitudinal maintenance of linguistic factors …

  • Quoting ethnicity

    Open Access•Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2010•Citada por: 15•Referencias: 51

    Within the system of direct quotation, speakers have a number of resources at their disposal from which they can select to construct dialogue. This article presents an investigation of the ways in which Maori and Pakeha English speakers deploy these resources. The analysis reveals extensive differences in the construction of dialogue between Maori and Pakeha which include, but are not limited to, quantitative differences in the use of individual …

  • Prestige, accommodation, and the legacy of relativewho

    Open Access•Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2010•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 37

    This article presents a quantitative variationist analysis of the English restrictive relative pronouns. However, where previous research has largely focused on language-internal explanations for variant choice, the focus here is the social meaning of this erstwhile syntactic variable. We uncover rich sociolinguistic embedding of the relative pronouns in standard, urban speech. The only productivewh-form iswho, which continues to pattern as a pre…

  • Localized globalization

    Open Access•Isabelle Buchstaller, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2009•Citada por: 55•Referencias: 49

    We conduct a multi‐local, multivariate analysis of be like in comparable datasets from three discontinuous geographic settings (the U.S.A., England, and New Zealand). Previously, comparative cross‐variety analysis of this form has been fundamentally hampered by key methodological differences. A methodologically coherent analysis reveals that the ‘classic factors’ ( Tagliamonte and D’Arcy 2007 : 203) grammatical person and content of the quote, as…

  • Peaks Beyond Phonology

    Open Access•Sali A Tagliamonte, Alexandra D''Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language•2009•Citada por: 67•Referencias: 31

    What is the mechanism by which a linguistic change advances across successive generations of speakers? We explore this question by using the model of incrementation provided in Labov 2001 and analyzing six current changes in English. Extending Labov's focus on recent and vigorous phonological changes, we target ongoing morphosyntactic(-semantic) and discourse-pragmatic changes. Our results provide a striking validation of the incrementation model…

  • Frequency and variation in the community grammar

    Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2007•Citada por: 36•Referencias: 6

    In this article we perform a quantitative analysis of verbs of quotation in a cohesive speech community. The incoming form be like overshadows all other quotative verbs among speakers under 30. This telescoped rate of change provides an opportunity to investigate the actuation problem as well as to probe the underlying mechanism of change in the contrasting variable grammars across generations. Multivariate analyses of factors conditioning be lik…

  • The modals of obligation/necessity in Canadian perspective

    Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•English World-Wide A Journal of…•2007•Citada por: 12

    The modal verbs of English have been undergoing change since the Late Old English and Early Middle English periods. Recent research suggests dramatic recent developments, particularly in American English. In this paper, we focus on the encoding of obligation/necessity, which involves the layering of must , have ( got ) to , got to , and need to . Building on a longitudinal research program on (spoken) English dialect corpora, the present investig…

  • Likeand Language Ideology

    Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2007•Citada por: 30•Referencias: 44

    The selective attention paid to the language of adolescents has led to the enduring belief that young people are ruining the language and that, as a consequence, the language is degenerating. One feature of contemporary vernaculars that is often held up as exemplification of these ideological principles is like, the “much-deplored interjection... that peppers the talk of so many of the unpliant young these days” (Wilson 1987, 92). There is, in fa…

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  • He's like, she's like

    Open Access•Sali Tagliamonte, Sali A Tagliamonte et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2004•Citada por: 70•Referencias: 18

    Due to the recent and rapid newcomer, be like, the English quotative system is a good place to catch language change in action. However, since most previous analyses target people in their early twenties, little is known about how be like is diffusing. In this paper we conduct an analysis of Canadian youth between ten and nineteen years old and compare the results with an earlier study. There is a dramatic increase in be like in real time. In app…

  • Peaks Beyond Phonology

    Open Access•Sali A Tagliamonte, Alexandra D''Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language•2009•Citada por: 67•Referencias: 31

    What is the mechanism by which a linguistic change advances across successive generations of speakers? We explore this question by using the model of incrementation provided in Labov 2001 and analyzing six current changes in English. Extending Labov's focus on recent and vigorous phonological changes, we target ongoing morphosyntactic(-semantic) and discourse-pragmatic changes. Our results provide a striking validation of the incrementation model…

  • Localized globalization

    Open Access•Isabelle Buchstaller, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2009•Citada por: 55•Referencias: 49

    We conduct a multi‐local, multivariate analysis of be like in comparable datasets from three discontinuous geographic settings (the U.S.A., England, and New Zealand). Previously, comparative cross‐variety analysis of this form has been fundamentally hampered by key methodological differences. A methodologically coherent analysis reveals that the ‘classic factors’ ( Tagliamonte and D’Arcy 2007 : 203) grammatical person and content of the quote, as…

  • Frequency and variation in the community grammar

    Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2007•Citada por: 36•Referencias: 6

    In this article we perform a quantitative analysis of verbs of quotation in a cohesive speech community. The incoming form be like overshadows all other quotative verbs among speakers under 30. This telescoped rate of change provides an opportunity to investigate the actuation problem as well as to probe the underlying mechanism of change in the contrasting variable grammars across generations. Multivariate analyses of factors conditioning be lik…

  • Likeand Language Ideology

    Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2007•Citada por: 30•Referencias: 44

    The selective attention paid to the language of adolescents has led to the enduring belief that young people are ruining the language and that, as a consequence, the language is degenerating. One feature of contemporary vernaculars that is often held up as exemplification of these ideological principles is like, the “much-deplored interjection... that peppers the talk of so many of the unpliant young these days” (Wilson 1987, 92). There is, in fa…

  • The diachrony of quotation

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2012•Citada por: 19•Referencias: 25

    Much recent work on English direct quotation assumes that the system is undergoing rapid and large-scale change via the emergence of “innovative” forms such as be like . This view is supported by synchronic evidence, but the dearth of diachronic evidence forces reconsideration of this assumption. Drawing on data representing the full history of New Zealand English, this paper presents a variationist analysis of the quotative system, providing a c…

  • Quoting ethnicity

    Open Access•Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2010•Citada por: 15•Referencias: 51

    Within the system of direct quotation, speakers have a number of resources at their disposal from which they can select to construct dialogue. This article presents an investigation of the ways in which Maori and Pakeha English speakers deploy these resources. The analysis reveals extensive differences in the construction of dialogue between Maori and Pakeha which include, but are not limited to, quantitative differences in the use of individual …

  • Ethics and social media

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2012•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 25

    As a popular agora for writing identity into being, the networked public of social media sites presents exciting and unprecedented possibilities for sociolinguistic research. At the same time, these sites raise a wealth of unfamiliar methodological and ethical issues, and debate concerning appropriate ethical measures for research targeting online discourse communities is emergent. One of the most pressing debates concerns the visibility of onlin…

  • Outliers, impact, and rationalization in linguistic change

    Open Access•Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language•2016•Citada por: 13

    Quotative be like is a rapid global innovation, yet no evidence pinpoints when it arose, under what circumstances, or the consequences of its emergence. Using a data set spanning four cities and two hemispheres, we document systemic regularity across time and space. The results force us to confront three issues: the uniformitarian principle, the criterion of face-to-face contact in the diffusion of language change, and the nature of language as a…

  • The modals of obligation/necessity in Canadian perspective

    Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•English World-Wide A Journal of…•2007•Citada por: 12

    The modal verbs of English have been undergoing change since the Late Old English and Early Middle English periods. Recent research suggests dramatic recent developments, particularly in American English. In this paper, we focus on the encoding of obligation/necessity, which involves the layering of must , have ( got ) to , got to , and need to . Building on a longitudinal research program on (spoken) English dialect corpora, the present investig…

  • Settler Colonial Englishes Are Distinct from Postcolonial Englishes

    Derek Denis, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2018•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 54

    In this position paper, we take up David Deterding's 2008 call to think more carefully about the differences across varieties of English that have developed as a product of settler influence (e.g., Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, United States) versus those in which the Indigenous languages continue to influence lexis, phonology, morphosyntax, and discourse-pragmatics (e.g., India, Nigeria, Singapore). For us, this distinction is fundamentally…

  • Prestige, accommodation, and the legacy of relativewho

    Open Access•Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2010•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 37

    This article presents a quantitative variationist analysis of the English restrictive relative pronouns. However, where previous research has largely focused on language-internal explanations for variant choice, the focus here is the social meaning of this erstwhile syntactic variable. We uncover rich sociolinguistic embedding of the relative pronouns in standard, urban speech. The only productivewh-form iswho, which continues to pattern as a pre…

  • Lexical Replacement and the Like(s)

    Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2006•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 20

    This article investigates the function of like when it occurs in numerically quantified contexts. The pragmatic literature espouses two distinct positions on this topic, though neither has yet been tested empirically. On the one hand, like is argued to be a genuine pragmatic particle, indistinguishable from other discourse uses of this lexeme. Alternatively, others argue that in numerical contexts like carries propositional content and in this re…

  • Ethics in Linguistics

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Emily M Bender•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Linguistics•2022•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 16

    In linguistics, ethics has long encompassed matters typically covered under regulatory oversight, but it is increasingly understood as relational and reciprocal, conferring responsibilities and obligations that extend beyond the work produced for other researchers. Those who study language are also coming to interrogate their professional responsibilities not only in how research is done but also in how research is conceived, framed, reported, di…

  • Deriving Homogeneity in a Settler Colonial Variety of English

    Derek Denis, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2019•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 51

    Canadian English (CanE) is argued to present a textbook example of dialectological homogeneity. Its largely undifferentiated urban structure is attributed to source input, as a consequence of a shared founder effect. This outcome is predicted by the sociohistorical realities of settler colonialism but remains unexplored in diachronic perspective. The recent construction of large diachronic corpora of regional CanE varieties enables direct compari…

  • Not always variable

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2015•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 17

    Written and spoken language are known to differ substantially (Biber, 1988; 1995; Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 1999). Standard written language is highly uniform and governed by prescription, whereas the vernacular is most revealing of structured heterogeneity (Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog, 1968). We focus on four English morphosyntactic variables that problematize assumptions about the nature of variation in the vernacular: the geni…

  • Social work and linguistic systems

    Open Access•Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2010•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 9

    The system of stative possession has been subject to variation and change since at least the Early Modern period, with have got rising in frequency in British and Antipodean varieties of English. In Canadian English, as represented by data from the largest city, Toronto, have predominates. Nonetheless, the full set of constraints previously reported for this variable are operative, corroborating the longitudinal maintenance of linguistic factors …

  • American Speech, Settler Colonialism, and a View from a Place Currently Called Canada

    Derek Denis, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2022•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 15

  • Quotation and Advances in Understanding Syntactic Systems

    Alex D’arcy•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Linguistics•2015•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 24

    At first glance, the syntax of quotation appears to be a rather straightforward matter of transitivity and complementation. However, quotation raises a number of intriguing and perplexing questions for the functioning, structure, and development of syntactic systems, and for their interactions with the semantic–interpretative interface. The purpose of this review is to articulate and exemplify these challenges as raised in the literature of vario…

  • Asymmetrical trajectories

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2013•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 5

    The set of English [+human] pronominal quantifiers has been variable for at least 500 years, with the compound forms – body and – one competing since Middle and Early Modern English. This change has still to run its course (cf. Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg, 2003:78). Using corpora of historical texts, we track the development of these variants alongside the demise of the earlier variant – man . Then, drawing on contemporary and regionally diver…

  • The development of linguistic constraints

    Alex D’arcy•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2005•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 5

    This article examines two well-known innovations in Canadian English (CE)—(æ) Retraction and Lowering (e.g., mad, pat) and (aw) Fronting (e.g., loud, mouse)— with a view to discovering the routes by which phonological change diffuses. The data are from St. John's, Newfoundland, one of the few remaining Canadian communities where the variety spoken by the founding population remains relatively intact. Because this variety is leveling toward CE (Cl…

  • Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function

    Open Access•Martina Wiltschko, Derek Denis et al.•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2018•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 31

    Despite recent advances (e.g. Cheshire 2007; Pichler 2010; Denis 2015), discourse-pragmatic variables continue to challenge variationist theory and methods. An overarching dilemma concerns multifunctionality, raising difficulties for semantic equivalency and the circumscription of the variable context. In this article we present a case study to illustrate that deconstructing a discourse-pragmatic marker into its composite parts reveals clear crit…

  • He's like, she's like

    Open Access•Sali Tagliamonte, Sali A Tagliamonte et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2004•Citada por: 70•Referencias: 18

    Due to the recent and rapid newcomer, be like, the English quotative system is a good place to catch language change in action. However, since most previous analyses target people in their early twenties, little is known about how be like is diffusing. In this paper we conduct an analysis of Canadian youth between ten and nineteen years old and compare the results with an earlier study. There is a dramatic increase in be like in real time. In app…

  • The development of linguistic constraints

    Alex D’arcy•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2005•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 5

    This article examines two well-known innovations in Canadian English (CE)—(æ) Retraction and Lowering (e.g., mad, pat) and (aw) Fronting (e.g., loud, mouse)— with a view to discovering the routes by which phonological change diffuses. The data are from St. John's, Newfoundland, one of the few remaining Canadian communities where the variety spoken by the founding population remains relatively intact. Because this variety is leveling toward CE (Cl…

  • Lexical Replacement and the Like(s)

    Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2006•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 20

    This article investigates the function of like when it occurs in numerically quantified contexts. The pragmatic literature espouses two distinct positions on this topic, though neither has yet been tested empirically. On the one hand, like is argued to be a genuine pragmatic particle, indistinguishable from other discourse uses of this lexeme. Alternatively, others argue that in numerical contexts like carries propositional content and in this re…

  • Frequency and variation in the community grammar

    Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2007•Citada por: 36•Referencias: 6

    In this article we perform a quantitative analysis of verbs of quotation in a cohesive speech community. The incoming form be like overshadows all other quotative verbs among speakers under 30. This telescoped rate of change provides an opportunity to investigate the actuation problem as well as to probe the underlying mechanism of change in the contrasting variable grammars across generations. Multivariate analyses of factors conditioning be lik…

  • The modals of obligation/necessity in Canadian perspective

    Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•English World-Wide A Journal of…•2007•Citada por: 12

    The modal verbs of English have been undergoing change since the Late Old English and Early Middle English periods. Recent research suggests dramatic recent developments, particularly in American English. In this paper, we focus on the encoding of obligation/necessity, which involves the layering of must , have ( got ) to , got to , and need to . Building on a longitudinal research program on (spoken) English dialect corpora, the present investig…

  • Likeand Language Ideology

    Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2007•Citada por: 30•Referencias: 44

    The selective attention paid to the language of adolescents has led to the enduring belief that young people are ruining the language and that, as a consequence, the language is degenerating. One feature of contemporary vernaculars that is often held up as exemplification of these ideological principles is like, the “much-deplored interjection... that peppers the talk of so many of the unpliant young these days” (Wilson 1987, 92). There is, in fa…

  • Localized globalization

    Open Access•Isabelle Buchstaller, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2009•Citada por: 55•Referencias: 49

    We conduct a multi‐local, multivariate analysis of be like in comparable datasets from three discontinuous geographic settings (the U.S.A., England, and New Zealand). Previously, comparative cross‐variety analysis of this form has been fundamentally hampered by key methodological differences. A methodologically coherent analysis reveals that the ‘classic factors’ ( Tagliamonte and D’Arcy 2007 : 203) grammatical person and content of the quote, as…

  • Peaks Beyond Phonology

    Open Access•Sali A Tagliamonte, Alexandra D''Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language•2009•Citada por: 67•Referencias: 31

    What is the mechanism by which a linguistic change advances across successive generations of speakers? We explore this question by using the model of incrementation provided in Labov 2001 and analyzing six current changes in English. Extending Labov's focus on recent and vigorous phonological changes, we target ongoing morphosyntactic(-semantic) and discourse-pragmatic changes. Our results provide a striking validation of the incrementation model…

  • Social work and linguistic systems

    Open Access•Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2010•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 9

    The system of stative possession has been subject to variation and change since at least the Early Modern period, with have got rising in frequency in British and Antipodean varieties of English. In Canadian English, as represented by data from the largest city, Toronto, have predominates. Nonetheless, the full set of constraints previously reported for this variable are operative, corroborating the longitudinal maintenance of linguistic factors …

  • Quoting ethnicity

    Open Access•Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2010•Citada por: 15•Referencias: 51

    Within the system of direct quotation, speakers have a number of resources at their disposal from which they can select to construct dialogue. This article presents an investigation of the ways in which Maori and Pakeha English speakers deploy these resources. The analysis reveals extensive differences in the construction of dialogue between Maori and Pakeha which include, but are not limited to, quantitative differences in the use of individual …

  • Prestige, accommodation, and the legacy of relativewho

    Open Access•Alexandra D''Arcy, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2010•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 37

    This article presents a quantitative variationist analysis of the English restrictive relative pronouns. However, where previous research has largely focused on language-internal explanations for variant choice, the focus here is the social meaning of this erstwhile syntactic variable. We uncover rich sociolinguistic embedding of the relative pronouns in standard, urban speech. The only productivewh-form iswho, which continues to pattern as a pre…

  • The diachrony of quotation

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2012•Citada por: 19•Referencias: 25

    Much recent work on English direct quotation assumes that the system is undergoing rapid and large-scale change via the emergence of “innovative” forms such as be like . This view is supported by synchronic evidence, but the dearth of diachronic evidence forces reconsideration of this assumption. Drawing on data representing the full history of New Zealand English, this paper presents a variationist analysis of the quotative system, providing a c…

  • Ethics and social media

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2012•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 25

    As a popular agora for writing identity into being, the networked public of social media sites presents exciting and unprecedented possibilities for sociolinguistic research. At the same time, these sites raise a wealth of unfamiliar methodological and ethical issues, and debate concerning appropriate ethical measures for research targeting online discourse communities is emergent. One of the most pressing debates concerns the visibility of onlin…

  • Asymmetrical trajectories

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2013•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 5

    The set of English [+human] pronominal quantifiers has been variable for at least 500 years, with the compound forms – body and – one competing since Middle and Early Modern English. This change has still to run its course (cf. Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg, 2003:78). Using corpora of historical texts, we track the development of these variants alongside the demise of the earlier variant – man . Then, drawing on contemporary and regionally diver…

  • Stability, stasis and change

    Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy•ARTICLE•Diachronica•2015

    Intensification is prone to invention and renewal, rendering it ideal for delving into mechanisms of variation and change. Recycling (via lexical replacement) is a putative longitudinal constant, yet grammatical change (via grammaticalization) is regularly invoked in the literature. It is not clear how these complement each other. To probe this issue, this paper operationalizes variationist methods to examine intensification in the Origins of New…

  • Quotation and Advances in Understanding Syntactic Systems

    Alex D’arcy•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Linguistics•2015•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 24

    At first glance, the syntax of quotation appears to be a rather straightforward matter of transitivity and complementation. However, quotation raises a number of intriguing and perplexing questions for the functioning, structure, and development of syntactic systems, and for their interactions with the semantic–interpretative interface. The purpose of this review is to articulate and exemplify these challenges as raised in the literature of vario…

  • Not always variable

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2015•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 17

    Written and spoken language are known to differ substantially (Biber, 1988; 1995; Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 1999). Standard written language is highly uniform and governed by prescription, whereas the vernacular is most revealing of structured heterogeneity (Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog, 1968). We focus on four English morphosyntactic variables that problematize assumptions about the nature of variation in the vernacular: the geni…

  • Outliers, impact, and rationalization in linguistic change

    Open Access•Sali A Tagliamonte, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language•2016•Citada por: 13

    Quotative be like is a rapid global innovation, yet no evidence pinpoints when it arose, under what circumstances, or the consequences of its emergence. Using a data set spanning four cities and two hemispheres, we document systemic regularity across time and space. The results force us to confront three issues: the uniformitarian principle, the criterion of face-to-face contact in the diffusion of language change, and the nature of language as a…

  • Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function

    Open Access•Martina Wiltschko, Derek Denis et al.•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2018•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 31

    Despite recent advances (e.g. Cheshire 2007; Pichler 2010; Denis 2015), discourse-pragmatic variables continue to challenge variationist theory and methods. An overarching dilemma concerns multifunctionality, raising difficulties for semantic equivalency and the circumscription of the variable context. In this article we present a case study to illustrate that deconstructing a discourse-pragmatic marker into its composite parts reveals clear crit…

  • Settler Colonial Englishes Are Distinct from Postcolonial Englishes

    Derek Denis, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2018•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 54

    In this position paper, we take up David Deterding's 2008 call to think more carefully about the differences across varieties of English that have developed as a product of settler influence (e.g., Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, United States) versus those in which the Indigenous languages continue to influence lexis, phonology, morphosyntax, and discourse-pragmatics (e.g., India, Nigeria, Singapore). For us, this distinction is fundamentally…

  • Deriving Homogeneity in a Settler Colonial Variety of English

    Derek Denis, Alex D’arcy et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2019•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 51

    Canadian English (CanE) is argued to present a textbook example of dialectological homogeneity. Its largely undifferentiated urban structure is attributed to source input, as a consequence of a shared founder effect. This outcome is predicted by the sociohistorical realities of settler colonialism but remains unexplored in diachronic perspective. The recent construction of large diachronic corpora of regional CanE varieties enables direct compari…

  • Hedge Words

    Open Access•Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Jena Barchas‐lichtenstein et al.•OTHER•The International Encyclopedia of…•2020

    Despite popular conceptions of hedges as small, meaningless words that detract rather than add to the meaning of a conversational exchange, they take many forms, from words such as just to full clauses and utterances. As a discursive strategy, hedging serves two main functions: accountability and politeness. That is, hedging lessens the speaker's commitment to the truth of an utterance's content, and it softens otherwise face‐threatening acts. Th…

  • Peer Review in Linguistics Journals

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Alexandra D'Arcy et al.•ARTICLE•Language•2021

    We present new data on peer review practices in linguistics journals, reporting the results of an online survey of editors. This paper aims to increase understanding of the processes and practices of peer review for everyone involved—editors, authors, reviewers, and readers. Apprehending concretely how peer review happens from beginning to end and how editors think about it should help to demystify the process, especially for graduate students an…

  • Peer review in linguistics journals

    Alex D’arcy, Joseph Salmons•ARTICLE•Language•2021

  • Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics

    Open Access•Alex D’arcy, Peter J Grund et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of English Linguistics•2022

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