Gerard Van Herk

Biographic Data

ID1265523
NAMEGerard Van Herk
GIVEN NAMESGerard
FAMILY NAMEVan Herk
SIGNATUREVAN HERK G
AFFILIATIONSMemorial University of Newfoundland
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX3

  • Globalising sociolinguistics

    Gerard Van HerkARTICLEJournal of Multilingual and…2017

    Globalising sociolinguistics: challenging and expanding theory." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 38(6), pp. 574–575

  • Sociolinguistics

    Open AccessGerard Van HerkCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Work that -s

    Open AccessBecky Childs, Gerard Van HerkARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2014Cited by: 3References: 33

    Making use of three data sets of Newfoundland English, this paper uncovers the linguistic and social motivations and strategies used by young speakers to reclaim and re-shape a traditional, local, relic language feature (verbal -s attachment, as inI goes). While each group that we discuss (young females, drag queens, and a sample of the Newfoundland population) is differently situated with respect to the broader local culture (i.e. they each have…

  • Letter Perfect

    Gerard Van HerkARTICLEEnglish World-Wide A Journal of…2008

    This paper uses a multivariate analysis of 19th-century letters by semi-literate African American settlers in Liberia to investigate the frequency and distribution of the present perfect (PP) in earlier African American English (AAE). Despite descriptions elsewhere of the PP as marginal to AAE, it occurs here with great frequency, a finding attributed to the sensitivity of the form to genre differences. The linguistic factors conditioning choice …

  • The Very Big Class Project

    Gerard Van HerkARTICLEAmerican Speech2008Cited by: 7References: 5

    Research Article| May 01 2008 THE VERY BIG CLASS PROJECT: COLLABORATIVE LANGUAGE RESEARCH IN LARGE UNDERGRADUATE CLASSES Gerard Van Herk Gerard Van Herk Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2008) 83 (2): 222–230. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2008-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Gerard Van Herk; THE VERY BIG CLASS PROJECT: COLLABORATIVE …

  • S marks the spot? Regional variation and early African American correspondence

    Gerard Van Herk, J A WalkerARTICLELanguage Variation and Change2005Cited by: 6References: 6

    The different population ecologies of slavery-era America necessitate an investigation into the issue of regional variation in Early African American English (AAE). This article addresses this issue through the Ottawa Repository of Early African American Correspondence, a corpus of letters written by semiliterate African American settlers in Liberia between 1834 and 1866. We investigate nonstandard verbal -s and its conditioning by linguistic and…

  • Rewriting the past

    Gerard Van Herk, Shana PoplackARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2003

    Preview this article: Rewriting the past: Bare verbs in the Ottawa Repository of Early African American Correspondence, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jpcl.18.2.03her-1.gif