Carol Fehringer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2789672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Fehringer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Fehringer |
| SIGNATURE | FEHRINGER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The get -passive in Tyneside English
This paper provides a quantitative variationist analysis of the distribution of get - versus be -passives in spoken Tyneside English. Taking data from the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (1960s to 2010), the paper uses mixed-effects modelling to examine a wide range of possible constraints on the distribution of get versus be , some of which have been discussed at length in the literature on the get -passive (e.g. subject animacy…
The Use of Modal Particles in Netherlandic and Belgian Dutch Imperatives
This paper investigates the use of modal particles in spoken Dutch imperatives. Two types of particles are differentiated: mitigating, which are often used as a politeness strategy, and reinforcing, which add extra force to the utterance (Vismans 1994). Our findings show that in Netherlandic Dutch, the use of mitigating particles is determined by the type of occupation that the speaker has: Speakers in service-oriented occupations use mitigating …
“The Geordie accent has a bit of a bad reputation”
The subject of stative possession has generated much interest over the past decade, particularly regarding the origin of the construction have got and its use in different varieties of British and North American English (e.g. Tagliamonte, 2003, 2013; Jankowski 2005; Tagliamonte et al. , 2010). In these varieties, have got alternates with have to mark possession in sentences such as those in (1) below. (1) a. We' ve got a nice lounge there you kno…
The rise of the going to future in Tyneside English
This paper investigates the relative frequencies of the two major syntactic markers of future time expression (FTE), be going to and will in the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE). In particular, the rise in the frequency of be going to will be examined in the light of current theories of grammaticalisation. The various grammatical constraints that have been identified in the literature as determining the distribution of wil…
The lexical representation of compound words in English
Wie wär's mit einem richtigen Mädelsabend? Plural - s within Compounds in Colloquial Northern German
In standard German, the non-occurrence of - s plurals as the first element of a lexical compound (e.g., * Auto - s - berg ‘heap of cars') vs. the regular occurrence of the other plural suffixes (e.g., Kind-er-club ‘children's club', Frau - en - fete 'women's party') has often been quoted as evidence for a dual mechanism model of morphology, which sees irregular forms as stored in the mental lexicon while regular forms are generated by rule (see M…
Frills, furbelows and activated memory
How Stable are Morphological Doublets? A Case Study of /[schwa]/ [similar] Ø Variants in Dutch and German
This paper examines the diachronic development and synchronic status of morphological doublets in Dutch derivation (adjectives in -(e)lijk) and German inflection (genitives in -(e)s) in the light of the commonly held view that functionally equivalent doublets are rare in morphology and, where they do exist, tend to be small in number and diachronically unstable (see, for example, Kroch 1994). It is shown here that large numbers of doublets can th…
Prosodic Conditions on Allomorph Selection in Dutch Derivational Morphology
This paper examines the distribution of schwa-initial versus schwa-less allomorphs in specific areas of Dutch derivational morphology, with particular reference to Shannon's (1991) argument that schwa epenthesis is motivated by the need to improve poor syllable contacts. The present paper makes two basic claims. First, although optimization of syllable contacts may play a role in certain segmental constraints on the distribution of schwa, its mai…
The rise of the going to future in Tyneside English
This paper investigates the relative frequencies of the two major syntactic markers of future time expression (FTE), be going to and will in the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE). In particular, the rise in the frequency of be going to will be examined in the light of current theories of grammaticalisation. The various grammatical constraints that have been identified in the literature as determining the distribution of wil…
The get -passive in Tyneside English
This paper provides a quantitative variationist analysis of the distribution of get - versus be -passives in spoken Tyneside English. Taking data from the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (1960s to 2010), the paper uses mixed-effects modelling to examine a wide range of possible constraints on the distribution of get versus be , some of which have been discussed at length in the literature on the get -passive (e.g. subject animacy…
Prosodic Conditions on Allomorph Selection in Dutch Derivational Morphology
This paper examines the distribution of schwa-initial versus schwa-less allomorphs in specific areas of Dutch derivational morphology, with particular reference to Shannon's (1991) argument that schwa epenthesis is motivated by the need to improve poor syllable contacts. The present paper makes two basic claims. First, although optimization of syllable contacts may play a role in certain segmental constraints on the distribution of schwa, its mai…
How Stable are Morphological Doublets? A Case Study of /[schwa]/ [similar] Ø Variants in Dutch and German
This paper examines the diachronic development and synchronic status of morphological doublets in Dutch derivation (adjectives in -(e)lijk) and German inflection (genitives in -(e)s) in the light of the commonly held view that functionally equivalent doublets are rare in morphology and, where they do exist, tend to be small in number and diachronically unstable (see, for example, Kroch 1994). It is shown here that large numbers of doublets can th…
Frills, furbelows and activated memory
Wie wär's mit einem richtigen Mädelsabend? Plural - s within Compounds in Colloquial Northern German
In standard German, the non-occurrence of - s plurals as the first element of a lexical compound (e.g., * Auto - s - berg ‘heap of cars') vs. the regular occurrence of the other plural suffixes (e.g., Kind-er-club ‘children's club', Frau - en - fete 'women's party') has often been quoted as evidence for a dual mechanism model of morphology, which sees irregular forms as stored in the mental lexicon while regular forms are generated by rule (see M…
The lexical representation of compound words in English
“The Geordie accent has a bit of a bad reputation”
The subject of stative possession has generated much interest over the past decade, particularly regarding the origin of the construction have got and its use in different varieties of British and North American English (e.g. Tagliamonte, 2003, 2013; Jankowski 2005; Tagliamonte et al. , 2010). In these varieties, have got alternates with have to mark possession in sentences such as those in (1) below. (1) a. We' ve got a nice lounge there you kno…
The rise of the going to future in Tyneside English
This paper investigates the relative frequencies of the two major syntactic markers of future time expression (FTE), be going to and will in the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE). In particular, the rise in the frequency of be going to will be examined in the light of current theories of grammaticalisation. The various grammatical constraints that have been identified in the literature as determining the distribution of wil…
The Use of Modal Particles in Netherlandic and Belgian Dutch Imperatives
This paper investigates the use of modal particles in spoken Dutch imperatives. Two types of particles are differentiated: mitigating, which are often used as a politeness strategy, and reinforcing, which add extra force to the utterance (Vismans 1994). Our findings show that in Netherlandic Dutch, the use of mitigating particles is determined by the type of occupation that the speaker has: Speakers in service-oriented occupations use mitigating …
The get -passive in Tyneside English
This paper provides a quantitative variationist analysis of the distribution of get - versus be -passives in spoken Tyneside English. Taking data from the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (1960s to 2010), the paper uses mixed-effects modelling to examine a wide range of possible constraints on the distribution of get versus be , some of which have been discussed at length in the literature on the get -passive (e.g. subject animacy…
Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · German (2 works)