Marisa Brook
Biographic Data
| ID | 8843594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marisa Brook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Brook |
| SIGNATURE | BROOK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The origins of pretend like
Like can be a finite complementizer in present-day varieties of English after a few verbs of perception, apparentness, and/or behavior. Normally, like in this function is an innovation that has replaced the earlier variants as if and as though. Pretend like CP appears to be an exception: it is not clear that a precedent exists in the form of pretend as if or pretend as though. To investigate, this study employs the Corpus of Historical American E…
Language play is language variation
This article argues that language play is intimately related to linguistic variation and change. Using two corpora of online present-day English, we investigate playful conversion of adjectives into abstract nouns (e.g. made of awesome ∅), uncovering consistent rule-governed patterning in the grammatical constraints in spite of this option stemming from deliberate subversion of standard overt suffixation. Building on Haspelmath's (1999) notion of…
Interactive Name Databases as an Introduction to Social Factors and Graph Interpretation
Review Article| May 01 2017 Interactive Name Databases as an Introduction to Social Factors and Graph Interpretation Marisa Brook Marisa Brook Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2017) 92 (2): 264–278. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-4202064 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marisa Brook; Interactive Name Databases as…
Why Does Canadian English Use try to but British English Use try And? Let's Try and/to Figure It Out
This article examines the variation between try to and try and in two major varieties of English, Canadian and British. Embedding our research in earlier studies of corpora, we extend our knowledge of this phenomenon to vernacular community-based dialect data. Comparative sociolinguistic analysis and statistical methods establish the significant mechanisms underlying the alternation. Unexpected social patterns in the United Kingdom point to a cha…
Language play is language variation
This article argues that language play is intimately related to linguistic variation and change. Using two corpora of online present-day English, we investigate playful conversion of adjectives into abstract nouns (e.g. made of awesome ∅), uncovering consistent rule-governed patterning in the grammatical constraints in spite of this option stemming from deliberate subversion of standard overt suffixation. Building on Haspelmath's (1999) notion of…
Why Does Canadian English Use try to but British English Use try And? Let's Try and/to Figure It Out
This article examines the variation between try to and try and in two major varieties of English, Canadian and British. Embedding our research in earlier studies of corpora, we extend our knowledge of this phenomenon to vernacular community-based dialect data. Comparative sociolinguistic analysis and statistical methods establish the significant mechanisms underlying the alternation. Unexpected social patterns in the United Kingdom point to a cha…
Interactive Name Databases as an Introduction to Social Factors and Graph Interpretation
Review Article| May 01 2017 Interactive Name Databases as an Introduction to Social Factors and Graph Interpretation Marisa Brook Marisa Brook Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2017) 92 (2): 264–278. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-4202064 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marisa Brook; Interactive Name Databases as…
Language play is language variation
This article argues that language play is intimately related to linguistic variation and change. Using two corpora of online present-day English, we investigate playful conversion of adjectives into abstract nouns (e.g. made of awesome ∅), uncovering consistent rule-governed patterning in the grammatical constraints in spite of this option stemming from deliberate subversion of standard overt suffixation. Building on Haspelmath's (1999) notion of…
The origins of pretend like
Like can be a finite complementizer in present-day varieties of English after a few verbs of perception, apparentness, and/or behavior. Normally, like in this function is an innovation that has replaced the earlier variants as if and as though. Pretend like CP appears to be an exception: it is not clear that a precedent exists in the form of pretend as if or pretend as though. To investigate, this study employs the Corpus of Historical American E…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · American English (1 work)