Charles F Meyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 128488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles F Meyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles F |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Kučera, Henry
Henry Kučera is recognized for doing some of the earliest work on computers and language in the late 1950s.
Francis, Nelson
Winthrop Nelson Francis (also known as Nelson Francis) was a renowned historian of the English language, dialectologist, and corpus linguist.
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
The Variability of Current World Englishes
Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations. The book's chapters supply descriptions of Jamaican English in Toronto, English as an L2 in a South African mining township, Chinese and English contact in Singapore, unexpected, emergent variants in Canadian English, and innovations in the English of West Virginia. F…
Variability of Current World Englishes
Response to Newmeyer's 'Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage
In an article in a recent issue of Language (Newmeyer 2003), Frederick Newmeyer argues for a clear separation between what he terms ‘knowledge of language [i.e. grammar] and use of language [i.e. pragmatics]’ (682). In developing his argument, N makes frequent reference to linguistic analyses that are corpus-based, that is, centered on information taken from large datasets of actual speech or writing (e.g. transcriptions of conversations, newspap…
Ads Annual Lecture: Can You Really Study Language Variation in Linguistic Corpora
Linguistic corpora are increasingly being used to study many features of language variation. The use of corpora for this purpose raises an important methodological issue: can a single corpus be reliably used as the basis of studies examining many different language phenomena? This article describes a study of variation in the use of pseudotitles based on the various regional components of the International Corpus of English (ICE)—components conta…
Language Change and Gender
Research Article| November 01 2000 LANGUAGE CHANGE AND GENDER CHARLES F. MEYER CHARLES F. MEYER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 418–420. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-418 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation CHARLES F. MEYER; LANGUAGE CHANGE AND GENDER. American Speech 1 November 2000; 75 (4): 418–420. doi: https://doi.or…
The Verb in Contemporary English: Theory and Description
Coordinate structures in English
Comparable samples of speech and writing in the British and American components of the International Corpus of English were examined to study certain formal and functional properties of coordinate structures in English. This analysis indicated that and is a primary coordinator in English, and that but and or are more peripheral; that the concept of coordination without a coordinator (so‐called asyndetic coordination) should be made more precise b…
Apposition in Contemporary English
Coordination ellipsis in spoken and written American English
Studying Usage in Computer Corpora
Research Article| December 01 1994 8. Studying Usage in Computer Corpora Charles F. Meyer Charles F. Meyer University of Massachusetts at Boston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1994) 78 (1): 55–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/-78-1-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Charles F. Meyer; 8. Studying Usage in Computer Corpora. Publication of th…
Corpus Linguistics
Modals in Early American English
A Linguistic Study of American Punctuation
The Grammarian's Lot
Untriggered Reflexive Pronouns in English
The focus of our discussion, in contrast, is a phenomenon that has received less attention, namely the UNTRIGGERED reflexive (UR): that is, a reflexive that speakers find generally acceptable even though it is not coreferential with another NP. In the following analysis, we attempt to explain four distributional properties of UR's. First, UR's that are marginal at best as single NP's are often acceptable in coordinate NP's. This phenomenon is ill…
Varieties of English
New Englishes: The Case of Singapore
Restrictive apposition: An indeterminate category 1
Case Assignment and the Ordering of Constituents in Coordinate Constructions
HIS PAPER DEALS WITH THE FOLLOWING two phenomena found in coordinate constructions in English. First, ordinary rules of case assignment seem to be suspended when noun phrases (NP's) occur in coordinate structures. In particular, objective case pronouns never appear as the subject of a tensed clause unless they appear in a coordinate construction. For example, even in nonstandard dialects of English, we hear Me and him got fired but never *Me got …
A Comprehensive Overview of Linguistics
Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective
This study deals with the linguistic study of texts as a way of understanding how language functions in its immensely varied range of social contexts. The authors adopt a functional approach to language, in which the different registers or functional varieties of a language are explained by reference to the different contexts in which they occur. Their analysis reveals how, on the one hand, each text is unique, while on the other, the way a text …
Of Corpora, Computers, and Linguistics
Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective
This study deals with the linguistic study of texts as a way of understanding how language functions in its immensely varied range of social contexts. The authors adopt a functional approach to language, in which the different registers or functional varieties of a language are explained by reference to the different contexts in which they occur. Their analysis reveals how, on the one hand, each text is unique, while on the other, the way a text …
Case Assignment and the Ordering of Constituents in Coordinate Constructions
HIS PAPER DEALS WITH THE FOLLOWING two phenomena found in coordinate constructions in English. First, ordinary rules of case assignment seem to be suspended when noun phrases (NP's) occur in coordinate structures. In particular, objective case pronouns never appear as the subject of a tensed clause unless they appear in a coordinate construction. For example, even in nonstandard dialects of English, we hear Me and him got fired but never *Me got …
Untriggered Reflexive Pronouns in English
The focus of our discussion, in contrast, is a phenomenon that has received less attention, namely the UNTRIGGERED reflexive (UR): that is, a reflexive that speakers find generally acceptable even though it is not coreferential with another NP. In the following analysis, we attempt to explain four distributional properties of UR's. First, UR's that are marginal at best as single NP's are often acceptable in coordinate NP's. This phenomenon is ill…
New Englishes: The Case of Singapore
Ads Annual Lecture: Can You Really Study Language Variation in Linguistic Corpora
Linguistic corpora are increasingly being used to study many features of language variation. The use of corpora for this purpose raises an important methodological issue: can a single corpus be reliably used as the basis of studies examining many different language phenomena? This article describes a study of variation in the use of pseudotitles based on the various regional components of the International Corpus of English (ICE)—components conta…
Ellipsis and coordination: Norms and preferences
Restrictive apposition: An indeterminate category 1
Ellipsis and coordination: Norms and preferences
Histoire de France des commercants
Of Corpora, Computers, and Linguistics
Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective
This study deals with the linguistic study of texts as a way of understanding how language functions in its immensely varied range of social contexts. The authors adopt a functional approach to language, in which the different registers or functional varieties of a language are explained by reference to the different contexts in which they occur. Their analysis reveals how, on the one hand, each text is unique, while on the other, the way a text …
Case Assignment and the Ordering of Constituents in Coordinate Constructions
HIS PAPER DEALS WITH THE FOLLOWING two phenomena found in coordinate constructions in English. First, ordinary rules of case assignment seem to be suspended when noun phrases (NP's) occur in coordinate structures. In particular, objective case pronouns never appear as the subject of a tensed clause unless they appear in a coordinate construction. For example, even in nonstandard dialects of English, we hear Me and him got fired but never *Me got …
A Comprehensive Overview of Linguistics
Varieties of English
New Englishes: The Case of Singapore
Restrictive apposition: An indeterminate category 1
A Linguistic Study of American Punctuation
The Grammarian's Lot
Untriggered Reflexive Pronouns in English
The focus of our discussion, in contrast, is a phenomenon that has received less attention, namely the UNTRIGGERED reflexive (UR): that is, a reflexive that speakers find generally acceptable even though it is not coreferential with another NP. In the following analysis, we attempt to explain four distributional properties of UR's. First, UR's that are marginal at best as single NP's are often acceptable in coordinate NP's. This phenomenon is ill…
Modals in Early American English
Studying Usage in Computer Corpora
Research Article| December 01 1994 8. Studying Usage in Computer Corpora Charles F. Meyer Charles F. Meyer University of Massachusetts at Boston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1994) 78 (1): 55–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/-78-1-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Charles F. Meyer; 8. Studying Usage in Computer Corpora. Publication of th…
Corpus Linguistics
Apposition in Contemporary English
Coordination ellipsis in spoken and written American English
Coordinate structures in English
Comparable samples of speech and writing in the British and American components of the International Corpus of English were examined to study certain formal and functional properties of coordinate structures in English. This analysis indicated that and is a primary coordinator in English, and that but and or are more peripheral; that the concept of coordination without a coordinator (so‐called asyndetic coordination) should be made more precise b…
The Verb in Contemporary English: Theory and Description
Language Change and Gender
Research Article| November 01 2000 LANGUAGE CHANGE AND GENDER CHARLES F. MEYER CHARLES F. MEYER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 418–420. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-418 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation CHARLES F. MEYER; LANGUAGE CHANGE AND GENDER. American Speech 1 November 2000; 75 (4): 418–420. doi: https://doi.or…
Ads Annual Lecture: Can You Really Study Language Variation in Linguistic Corpora
Linguistic corpora are increasingly being used to study many features of language variation. The use of corpora for this purpose raises an important methodological issue: can a single corpus be reliably used as the basis of studies examining many different language phenomena? This article describes a study of variation in the use of pseudotitles based on the various regional components of the International Corpus of English (ICE)—components conta…
Response to Newmeyer's 'Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage
In an article in a recent issue of Language (Newmeyer 2003), Frederick Newmeyer argues for a clear separation between what he terms ‘knowledge of language [i.e. grammar] and use of language [i.e. pragmatics]’ (682). In developing his argument, N makes frequent reference to linguistic analyses that are corpus-based, that is, centered on information taken from large datasets of actual speech or writing (e.g. transcriptions of conversations, newspap…
The Variability of Current World Englishes
Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations. The book's chapters supply descriptions of Jamaican English in Toronto, English as an L2 in a South African mining township, Chinese and English contact in Singapore, unexpected, emergent variants in Canadian English, and innovations in the English of West Virginia. F…
Variability of Current World Englishes
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
Linguistics (19 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works)