Elizabeth R Jamieson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth R Jamieson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth R |
| FAMILY NAME | Jamieson |
| SIGNATURE | JAMIESON E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8679-3360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Studying Varied Input Contexts Can Further Our Understanding of L1 Grammatical Attrition
To advance our understanding of the vulnerability of native adult grammars to grammatical attrition, research should further explore the various input contexts in which such attrition may obtain. This article considers contexts where speakers are first exposed in adulthood to a grammatically distinct dialectal variety of their first language (L1), which may result in modifications to the grammar of their native dialect. Within psycholinguistic ap…
‘When intuitions (don't) fail’
A perennial problem for sociolinguists interested in morphosyntactic variation is that such forms are often low frequency, making quantitative analysis difficult or impossible. However, sociolinguists have been generally reluctant to adopt methodologies from syntax, such as acceptability data gleaned from speaker intuition, due to the belief that these judgments are not necessarily reliable. In this article we present data from the Scots Syntax A…
Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle
In this article, we describe and explain patterns of variation in acceptance of amn’t in varieties of Scots, drawing upon data from the Scots Syntax Atlas. Partly in line with findings from Bresnan (2001), we show that amn’t is much more widely accepted in inversion environments ( amn’t I ?) than in declaratives ( I amn’t ), but nevertheless, amn’t in declaratives is still accepted in certain regions of Scotland. We combine the productivity-based…
English contracted negation revisited
This article is concerned with the syntactic position of negation and how that connects to negation's morphological realization and semantic and pragmatic effects. We focus on the case of contracted negation in English, which may appear both before and after the grammatical subject, and which has been classically analyzed as involving a single syntactic element placed by syntactic rule into distinct linear positions. We argue that this analysis i…
Viewing dialect change through acceptability judgments
Acceptability judgments are the standard methodology for investigating syntactic variation. While acceptability judgments have been shown to be reliable in cases of assumed stable variation, there has been little discussion of how syntactic change plays out in judgment tasks. This is despite evidence from sociolinguistics that at the end of a change, speakers’ behaviour in production is “unpredictable”. How does this “unpredictability” play out i…
English contracted negation revisited
This article is concerned with the syntactic position of negation and how that connects to negation's morphological realization and semantic and pragmatic effects. We focus on the case of contracted negation in English, which may appear both before and after the grammatical subject, and which has been classically analyzed as involving a single syntactic element placed by syntactic rule into distinct linear positions. We argue that this analysis i…
Viewing dialect change through acceptability judgments
Acceptability judgments are the standard methodology for investigating syntactic variation. While acceptability judgments have been shown to be reliable in cases of assumed stable variation, there has been little discussion of how syntactic change plays out in judgment tasks. This is despite evidence from sociolinguistics that at the end of a change, speakers’ behaviour in production is “unpredictable”. How does this “unpredictability” play out i…
English contracted negation revisited
This article is concerned with the syntactic position of negation and how that connects to negation's morphological realization and semantic and pragmatic effects. We focus on the case of contracted negation in English, which may appear both before and after the grammatical subject, and which has been classically analyzed as involving a single syntactic element placed by syntactic rule into distinct linear positions. We argue that this analysis i…
Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle
In this article, we describe and explain patterns of variation in acceptance of amn’t in varieties of Scots, drawing upon data from the Scots Syntax Atlas. Partly in line with findings from Bresnan (2001), we show that amn’t is much more widely accepted in inversion environments ( amn’t I ?) than in declaratives ( I amn’t ), but nevertheless, amn’t in declaratives is still accepted in certain regions of Scotland. We combine the productivity-based…
‘When intuitions (don't) fail’
A perennial problem for sociolinguists interested in morphosyntactic variation is that such forms are often low frequency, making quantitative analysis difficult or impossible. However, sociolinguists have been generally reluctant to adopt methodologies from syntax, such as acceptability data gleaned from speaker intuition, due to the belief that these judgments are not necessarily reliable. In this article we present data from the Scots Syntax A…
How Studying Varied Input Contexts Can Further Our Understanding of L1 Grammatical Attrition
To advance our understanding of the vulnerability of native adult grammars to grammatical attrition, research should further explore the various input contexts in which such attrition may obtain. This article considers contexts where speakers are first exposed in adulthood to a grammatically distinct dialectal variety of their first language (L1), which may result in modifications to the grammar of their native dialect. Within psycholinguistic ap…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociolinguistics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Grammar (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Scots (2 works) · Syntax (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works)