Gunnel Tottie
Biographic Data
| ID | 6036934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunnel Tottie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunnel |
| FAMILY NAME | Tottie |
| SIGNATURE | TOTTIE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Not -negation revisited: Variation between a and any in verb complements in contemporary spoken American English
In not- negated English sentences with indefinite expressions following the verb, there is variation between the indefinite article and any as determiners of nouns. The standard view is that singular count nouns take the indefinite article and singular non-count and plural nouns take any. However, it is possible to encounter examples like it isn't any threat , there isn't any lock or I don't have any problem . The article studies variation betwee…
On the use of uh and um in American English
This study examines the use of uh and um — referred to jointly as UHM — in 14 conversations totaling c. 62,350 words from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English. UHM was much less frequent than in British English with 7.5 vs. 14.5 instances per million words in the British National Corpus. However, as in British English the frequency of UHM was closely correlated to extra-linguistic context. Conversations in non-private environments …
Uh and Um as sociolinguistic markers in British English
This study is based on the British National Corpus (BNC) and also takes data from the London-Lund Corpus (LLC) into account. It shows that the so-called filled pauses er/uh and erm/um are sociolinguistic markers that differentiate between registers of English and along gender, age and socio-economic class. Men, older people and educated speakers use more fillers than women, younger speakers and less educated speakers. Nasalization is used more of…
Relativization strategies in Earlier African American Vernacular English
This article, which examines the system of relative markers in Early African American English as documented in the Ex-Slave Recordings (Bailey et al., 1991), is intended as a contribution to two areas of research: African American Vernacular English and the system of relativization in English. We found a significantly higher incidence of zero marking in adverbial relatives than in non-adverbial relatives. Among non-adverbial relatives, a variable…
Negation in English Speech and Writing: A Study in Variation
Toward a pragmatic theory of negation why is there twice as much negation in spoken as in written discourse? affixal negation in speech and writing - a question of discourse strategy constraints on affixal and non-affixal negation not-negation vs no-negation - an introduction to the problem not-negation and no-negation in speech and writing - material, method and problems of variability and semantic equivalence overall results and factor assignme…
Introduction: Seven types of continuity in discourse
This issue of Language Variation and Change brings together seven articles from four continents, North and South America, Europe, and Australia, dealing with Québec French, Brazilian Portuguese, British and Australian English, respectively. Although the geographical spread is great, the articles have in common a focus on how various discourse strategies and devices (punctors, pragmatic expressions, extension particles) maintain coherence or conti…
The Negation of Epistemic Necessity in Present-Day British and American English
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Fuzzy Negation in English and Swedish
Uh and Um as sociolinguistic markers in British English
This study is based on the British National Corpus (BNC) and also takes data from the London-Lund Corpus (LLC) into account. It shows that the so-called filled pauses er/uh and erm/um are sociolinguistic markers that differentiate between registers of English and along gender, age and socio-economic class. Men, older people and educated speakers use more fillers than women, younger speakers and less educated speakers. Nasalization is used more of…
Relativization strategies in Earlier African American Vernacular English
This article, which examines the system of relative markers in Early African American English as documented in the Ex-Slave Recordings (Bailey et al., 1991), is intended as a contribution to two areas of research: African American Vernacular English and the system of relativization in English. We found a significantly higher incidence of zero marking in adverbial relatives than in non-adverbial relatives. Among non-adverbial relatives, a variable…
The Negation of Epistemic Necessity in Present-Day British and American English
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Fuzzy Negation in English and Swedish
The Negation of Epistemic Necessity in Present-Day British and American English
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Introduction: Seven types of continuity in discourse
This issue of Language Variation and Change brings together seven articles from four continents, North and South America, Europe, and Australia, dealing with Québec French, Brazilian Portuguese, British and Australian English, respectively. Although the geographical spread is great, the articles have in common a focus on how various discourse strategies and devices (punctors, pragmatic expressions, extension particles) maintain coherence or conti…
Negation in English Speech and Writing: A Study in Variation
Toward a pragmatic theory of negation why is there twice as much negation in spoken as in written discourse? affixal negation in speech and writing - a question of discourse strategy constraints on affixal and non-affixal negation not-negation vs no-negation - an introduction to the problem not-negation and no-negation in speech and writing - material, method and problems of variability and semantic equivalence overall results and factor assignme…
Relativization strategies in Earlier African American Vernacular English
This article, which examines the system of relative markers in Early African American English as documented in the Ex-Slave Recordings (Bailey et al., 1991), is intended as a contribution to two areas of research: African American Vernacular English and the system of relativization in English. We found a significantly higher incidence of zero marking in adverbial relatives than in non-adverbial relatives. Among non-adverbial relatives, a variable…
Uh and Um as sociolinguistic markers in British English
This study is based on the British National Corpus (BNC) and also takes data from the London-Lund Corpus (LLC) into account. It shows that the so-called filled pauses er/uh and erm/um are sociolinguistic markers that differentiate between registers of English and along gender, age and socio-economic class. Men, older people and educated speakers use more fillers than women, younger speakers and less educated speakers. Nasalization is used more of…
On the use of uh and um in American English
This study examines the use of uh and um — referred to jointly as UHM — in 14 conversations totaling c. 62,350 words from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English. UHM was much less frequent than in British English with 7.5 vs. 14.5 instances per million words in the British National Corpus. However, as in British English the frequency of UHM was closely correlated to extra-linguistic context. Conversations in non-private environments …
Not -negation revisited: Variation between a and any in verb complements in contemporary spoken American English
In not- negated English sentences with indefinite expressions following the verb, there is variation between the indefinite article and any as determiners of nouns. The standard view is that singular count nouns take the indefinite article and singular non-count and plural nouns take any. However, it is possible to encounter examples like it isn't any threat , there isn't any lock or I don't have any problem . The article studies variation betwee…
Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Negation (4 works) · American English (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works)