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Tables of Contents for past issues of JEngL

37.4 (December 2009)
37.3 (September 2009) Special Issue: Media Representations of Minority Languages
37.2 (June 2009)
37.1 (March 2009)
36.4 (December 2008)
36.3 (September 2008)
Special Issue: Language and Vulnerable Witnesses across Legal Contexts
36.2 (June 2008)
36.1 (March 2008)
35.4 (December 2007)
35.3 (September 2007) Special Issue: Perspectives on Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century
35.2 (June 2007)
35.1 (March 2007)
34.4 (December 2006)
34.3 (September 2006)
34.2 (June 2006)
34.1 (March 2006)
33.4 (December 2005)
33.3 (September 2005)
33.2 (June 2005)
33.1 (March 2005)
32.4 (December 2004)
32.3 (September 2004)
32.2 (June 2004)
32.1 (March 2004)
31.4 (December 2003)
31.3 (September 2003)
31.2 (June 2003)
31.1 (March 2003)
30.4 (December 2002) Special Issue: Teaching American English
30.3 (September 2002)
30.2 (June 2002) Special Issue: Language and Gender
30.1 (March 2002) Special Issue: Poetics
29.4 (December 2001)
29.3 (September 2001)
29.2 (June 2001)
29.1 (March 2001)
28.4 (December 2000)
28.3 (September 2000)
28.2 (June 2000)
28.1 (March 2000) Special Issue: Historical Corpora
27.4 (December 1999)
27.3 (September 1999) Special Issue: Dynamics of a Sociolinguistic System
27.2 (June 1999)
26.4 (December 1998)
26.3 (September 1998)
26.2 (June 1998) Special Issue: Ebonics
26.1 (March 1998)
25.4 (December 1997)
25.3 (September 1997)
25.2 (June 1997)
25.1 (March 1997)
24.4 (December 1996)
24.3 (September 1996)
24.2 (March 1996)
24.1 (January 1996)
23.1-2 (1990-1995)
22.2 (October 1989 [1993])


 

37.4 (December 2009)

Articles

Local and External Language Standards in African American English
Tyler Kendall and Walt Wolfram

Defining Dialect, Perceiving Dialect, and New Dialect Formation: Sarah Palin’s Speech
Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy, and Joseph Salmons

"Shut Up and Listen": An Interview with Richard W. Bailey
Michael Adams

Reviews

English: Meaning and Culture, by Anna Wierzbicka
Barbara Dancygier

In the Profession

Choosing the Right Journal for Your Manuscript
Barbara Johnstone

37.3 (September 2009)

Articles

"You're Not from New York City, You're from Rotherham": Dialect and Identity in British Indie Music
Joan C. Beal

Hip-hop in a Post-insular Community: Hybridity, Local Language, and Authenticity in an Online Newfoundland Rap Group
Sandra Clarke and Philip Hiscock

"Aren't We Proud of Our Language?": Authenticity, Commodification, and the Nissan Bonavista Television Commercial
Ruth King and Jennifer Wicks

The Mediated Performance of Vernaculars
Nikolas Coupland

37.2 (June 2009)

Articles

Exploring English Phraseology with Two Tools: NSM Semantic Methodology and Google
Anna Wierzbicka

Tag Questions in English: The First Century
Gunnel Tottie and Sebastian Hoffmann

A Perceptual Dialect Map of North East England
Michael Pearce

Reviews

An Introduction to Language Policy: Theory and Method, Edited by Thomas Ricento
David F. Marshall

Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers' Choices, by Florian Coulmas
Xiaozhao Huang

In the Profession

The "Empirical Tradition" in Linguistics
Charles F. Meyer


 

37.1 (March 2009)

Articles

When In Means Into: Towards an Understanding of Boundary-crossing In
Mark Tutton

Everyone Wants In: Want + Prepositional Adverb in the Midland and Beyond
Erica J. Benson

All Beginnings Are Light: A Study of Upbeat Phenomena at the Syntax-Phonology Interface
Julia Schlüter

Reviews

The Word Weavers: Newshounds and Wordsmiths, by Jean Aitchison
Paul Baker

In the Profession

Habeas Corpus?
William A. Kretszchmar, Jr.

 

36.4 (December 2008)

Articles

Intransitive or Object Deleting?: Classifying English Verbs Used without an Object
Dilin Liu

The Nominative and Infinitive in Late Modern English: A Diachronic Constructionist Approach
Dirk Noël

English Dialect "Default Singulars," Was versus Were, Verner's Law, and Germanic Dialects
Peter Trudgill

Interview with Walt Wolfram
Interviewed by Natalie Schilling-Estes

Reviews

Spelling and Society: The Culture and Politics of Orthography around the World, by Mark Sebba
John Algeo

Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs, by Norma Mendoza-Denton
Rusty Barrett

Simpler Syntax, by Peter W. Culicover and Ray Jackendoff
Mark Honegger

36.3 (September 2008) Special Issue: Language and Vulnerable Witnesses across Legal Contexts

edited by June Luchjenbroers and Michelle Aldridge

Articles

Language and Vulnerable Witnesses across Legal Contexts: Introduction to the Special Issue
June Luchjenbroers and Michelle Aldridge

You Might Win the Battle but Lose the War: Multimodal, Interactive, and Extralinguistic Aspects of Witness Resistance
Greogory M. Matoesian
(View accompanying video here.)

"Did They Really Say That?": The Women of Wenatchee: Vulnerability, Confessions, and Linguistic Analysis
Gail Stygall

"Which Way?": Difficult Options for Vulnerable Witnesses in Australian Aboriginal Land Claim and Native Title Cases
Michael Walsh

Vulnerable Witnesses and Problems of Portrayal: A Consideration of Videotaped Police Interviews in Child Rape Cases
Michelle Aldridge and June Luchjenbroers

36.2 (June 2008)

Articles

A Dialect Turned Inside Out: Migration and the Appalachian Diaspora
Kirk Hazen and Sarah Hamilton

Regional Phonetic Differentiation in Standard Canadian English
Charles Boberg

Imperfectivity and Transience: The Two Sides of the Progressive Aspect in Simultaneity as- and while-clauses
Cristiano Broccias

Reviews

Methods in Historical Pragmatics, edited by Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Irma Taavitsainen
Peter Grund

In the Profession

African American English: Connecting Linguistics' Message with a Mission
Robin Queen and Marlyse Baptista

36.1 (March 2008)

Articles

Fleeing, Sneaking, Flooding: A Corpus Analysis of Discursive Constructions of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK Press, 1996-2005
Costas Gabrielatos and Paul Baker

A Corpus Analysis of (The) Last/Next + Temporal Nouns
Isiah WonHo Yoo

The Normative North and the Stigmatized South: Ideology and Methodology in the Perceptual Dialectology of California
Mary Bucholtz, Nancy Bermudez, Victor Fung, Rosalva Vargas, and Lisa Edwards

Reviews

The English Language: A Linguistic History, by Laurel J. Brinton and Leslie K. Arnovick
Stefan Dollinger

In the Profession

Contrast in Language and Linguistics
Laurie Bauer

35.4 (December 2007)

Articles

The Grammaticalization of Small Size Nouns: Reconsidering Frequency and Analogy
Liselotte Brems

Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California
Mary Bucholtz, Nancy Bermudez, Victor Fung, Lisa Edwards, and Rosalva Vargas

Interview with Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Interviewed by Scott A. Schwenter
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Reviews

A History of the English Language, edited by Richard M. Hogg and David Denison
Colette Moore

An Introduction to Language and Linguistics: Breaking the Language Spell, by Christopher J. Hall
Rebecca Babcock

British or American English? A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns, by John Algeo
Rosamund Moon

In the Profession

Perspectives on the Academic Job Search
Robin Queen and Anne Curzan

35.3 (September 2007) Special Issue: Perspectives on Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century

edited by Csilla Weninger and Claire Andres

Articles

Putting the Pieces Together: An Introduction to Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century
Csilla Weninger and Claire Andres

The Object Called "Language" and the Subject of Linguistics
Asif Agha

Linguistics and Micro-Rhetoric: A Twenty-First Century Encounter
Paul J. Hopper

A Whole Lot of Challenges for Linguistics
Ray Jackendoff

What's in the Name "Linguistics" for Variationists
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

A Linguistics for the Evolution and Neurobiology of Language
John H. Schumann

35.2 (June 2007)

Articles

The Spread of Grammaticalized Forms: The Case of be+supposed to
Colette Moore

Viewpoint -wise: The Spread and Development of a New Type of Adverb in American and British English
Hans Lindquist

Steady States in the Evolution of New Englishes: Present-Day Indian English as an Equilibrium
Joybrato Mukherjee

Reviews

The Handbook of English Linguistics, by Bas Aarts and April McMahon, eds.
Roderick A. Jacobs

Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles, edited by Susanne Mühleisen and Bettina Migge
Iyabo F. Osiapem

The Linguistics of History, by Roy Harris
Don E. Walicek

In the Profession

Re-Viewing the Academic Book Review
Michael Adams

35.1 (March 2007)

Articles

A Corpus-Based Investigation of Absolutely and Related Phenomena in Spoken American English
Hongyin Tao

Phonetic Variation in the Traditional English Dialects: A Computational Analysis
Robert G. Shackleton, Jr.

Reviews

Middle English Medical Texts
Peter Grund

In the Profession

Real People and Real English
Richard W. Bailey

34.4 (December 2006)

Articles

Tag Questions in British and American English
Gunnel Tottie and Sebastian Hoffman

Emergent Alternation in Complement Selection: The Spread of the Transitive into -ing Construction in British and American English
Juhani Rudanko

Interview with William Labov
interviewed and transcribed by Matthew Gordon

Reviews

Language Contact and Grammatical Change
Carol Myers-Scotton

Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars
Peter Grund

Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech
Marianne Cooley

Urban Bahamian Creole: System and Variation
Iyabo F. Osiapem

In the Profession

Academic Publication
Anne Curzan and Robin Queen

34.3 (September 2006)

Articles

Collaboration on Corpora for Regional and Social Analysis
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Jean Anderson, Joan C. Beal, Karen P. Corrigan, Lisa Lena Opas-Hönninen, and Bartlomiej Plichta

The Committee Has/Have Decided...: On Concord Patterns with Collective Nouns in Inner- and Outer-Circle Varieties of English
Marianne Hundt

When I started to using BLUR: Accounting for Unusual Verb Complementation Patterns in an Electronic Corpus of Earlier African American English
Edgar W. Schneider and Ulrich Miethaner

Negative Concord as an English "Vernacular Universal": Social History and Linguistic Typology
Terttu Nevalainen

34.2 (June 2006)

Articles

Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of "Pittsburghese"
Barbara Johnstone, Jennifer Andrus, and Andrew E. Danielson

Manuscripts as Sources for Linguistic Research: A Methodological Case Study Based on the Mirror of Lights
Peter Grund

Tense Variation in Preadolescent Narratives
Stephen Levey

Reviews

Francis A. March: Selected Writings of the First Professor of English
Richard W. Bailey

Predicting New Words: The Secrets of their Success
Mark Honegger

Empirical Linguistics
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

In the Profession

Anne Curzan and Robin Queen

34.1 (March 2006)

Articles

New Perspectives on English Sound Patterns
Juliette Blevins

The Backyard as a Dialect Boundary: Individuation, Linguistic Heterogeneity, and Sociolinguistic Eccentricity in a Small Speech Community
Daniel Schreier

Reviews

Rogue Scholar: The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff
Christopher A. Healy

Modality in Contemporary English
Zouhair Maalej

Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean
Iyabo F. Osiapem

33.4 (December 2005)

Articles

Structured Heterogeneity and Change in Laryngeal Phonetics: Upper Midwestern Final Obstruents
Thomas Purnell, Joseph Salmons, Dilara Tepeli, and Jennifer Mercer

The Markers of Habitual Aspect in English
Robert I. Binnick

Reviews

Language in the U.S.A.: Themes for the Twenty-First Century
Lamont D. Antieau

Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives
Mark Honegger

A Handbook of Varieties of English: A Multimedia Reference Tool
Christian Mair

A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics
Emma Moore

33.3 (September 2005)

Articles

Filling the Gap
Gregory K. Iverson and Joseph C. Salmons

Quotative Use in American English: A Corpus-Based, Cross-Register Comparison
Federica Barbieri

Variable vs. Categorical Effects: Preposition Pied Piping and Stranding in British English Relative Clauses
Thomas Hoffmann

Reviews

The Handbook of Language and Gender
E. Moore Quinn

33.2 (June 2005)

Articles

English-American Speech Relationships: A Quantitative Approach
Robert G. Shackleton, Jr.

Shifting Parameters of Individual and Group Variation: African American English on Roanoke Island
Jeannine Carpenter and Sarah Hilliard

Reviews

Singapore English: A Grammatical Description
Anthea Fraser Gupta

Australia's Many Voices: Australian English—The National Language
Pam Peters

The Syntax of Early English
Matti Rissanen

Historical Sociolinguistics
Sali A. Tagliamonte

33.1 (March 2005)

Articles

Pragmatic Strengthening and the Meaning of Complement Constructions: The Case of Like and Love with the to-Infinitive
Hendrik De Smet and Hubert Cuyckens

Verb Agreement and Disagreement: A Corpus Investigation of Concord Variation in Existential There + Be Constructions
William J. Crawford

Two Approaches to Genre Analysis: Three Genres in Modern American English
Zhonghua Xiao and Anthony McEnery

Reviews

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 2nd ed.
Roderick A. Jacobs

Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to Modern
Peter Grund

Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon
Susan Tamasi

32.4 (December 2004)

Articles

Contextualizing St. John’s Youth English within the Canadian Quotative System
Alex D'Arcy

Querying Keywords: Questions of Difference, Frequency, and Sense in Keywords Analysis
Paul Baker

Reviews

Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English, edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta
Peter Grund

Perspectives on English as a World Language,
Julian Jefferies

English Words. History and Structure, by Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova
Jared S. Klein

32.3 (September 2004)

Articles

Addressing Ideologies Around African American English
Alicia Beckford Wassink and Anne Curzan

Language and African Americans: Movin on up a Lil Higher
Geneva Smitherman

Standard English and Academic English (Dialect) Learners in the African Diaspora
John Baugh

Research on African American English Since 1998: Origins, Description, Theory, and Practice
Lisa Green

African American English and other Vernaculars in Education: A Topic-Coded Bibliography John R. Rickford, Julie Sweetland, and Angela E. Rickford

32.2 (June 2004)

Articles

The Rise of Epicene They
Mark Balhorn

The American National Corpus: Overall Goals and the First Release
Randi Reppen and Nancy Ide

Digital Historical Newspapers: A Review of the Powerful New Research Tools
Barry Popik

Developing Methods for Very-Large-Scale Searches in Proquest Historical Newspapers Collection and Infotrac the Times Digital Archive: The Case of Two Million Versus Two Millions
Donald S. MacQueen

Reviews

 

32.1 (March 2004)

Articles

Language Ideology and the Transmission of Phonological Change: Changing Indexicality in Two Situations of Language Contact
Alicia Beckford Wassink and Judy Dyer

Looking for the Smoking Gun: Principled Sampling in Creating the Tobacco Industry Documents Corpus
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Clayton Darwin, Cati Brown, Donald Rubin, and Douglas Biber

Reviews

Professional Communication in International Settings by Yuling Pan, Suzanne Wong Scollon, and Ron Scollon
Chaoquin Xie and Dajin Lin

Race and the Rise of Standard American by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Mohammed Albakry

Eighteenth-Century English by Manfred Görlach
Jane Hodson

The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 6 edited by John Algeo
Alan R. Slotkin

African American English in Diaspora by Shana Poplack and Sali Tagliamonte
Robin Sabino

World Lexicon of Grammaticalization by Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva
Nikolas Gisborne

31.4 (December 2003)

Articles

BE GOING TO versus WILL/SHALL: Does Syntax Matter?
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

The Gerund and the to-Infinitive as Subject
Patrick J. Duffley

Reviews

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed., edited by Joseph P. Pickett
John Algeo

Dictionary of American Regional English, edited by Joan Houston Hall
Richard W. Bailey

Variation Past and Present: VARIENG Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen, edited by Helena Ramoulin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi, and Matti Rissanen
Roberta Facchinetti

Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Family: Volume 1. Grammar, by Joseph Greenberg
Jared S. Klein

Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English, edited by Clive Upton, William A. Kretzschmar Jr., and Rafal Konopka
Lee Pederson

31.3(September 2003)

Articles

Secondary Stress in Compound Germanic Names in Old English Verse
Thomas Bredehoft

The Linguistic Study of Early Modern English Speech-Related Texts: How "Bad" Can "Bad" Data Be?
Merja Kytö and Terry Walker

Insularity and Linguistic Endemicity
Daniel Schreier

What Comes before t? Nonalveolar s in Auckland
Donna Starks and W. Scott Allan

Reviews

Agreement with Collective Nouns in English by Magnus Levin
Attila Cserep

Programming for Linguistics: Perl for Language Researchers by Michael Hammond
Jesse Sheidlower

Pidgin and Creole Languages: A Basic Introduction by Alan S. Kaye and Mauro Tosco
Don E. Walicek

31.2 (June 2003)

Articles

Linguistic Archaeology: The Scottish Input to New Zealand English Phonology
Peter Trudgill, Margaret A. MacLagan, and Gillian Lewis

Causative get and have: So Close, So Different
Gaentanelle gilquin

"God Forbid!": A Historical Study of the Verb forbid in Different Versions of the English Bible
Yoko Iyeiri

Reviews

Wortatlas der deutschen Umgangssprachen, Volume 3 and Wortatlas der deutschen Umgangssprachen, Volume 4 by Jürgen Eichhoff
Peter Auer

The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800 edited by Laura Wright
Anne Curzan

Metaphor: A Practical Introduction by Zoltan Kovecses
Charles Forceville

Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed. by Sidney I. Landau
Joan Houston Hall

Place Names in the Midwestern United States edited by Edward Callary
America--Naming the Country and the People by Allen Walker Read
Thomas E. Murray

31.1 (March 2003)

Articles

Sociolinguistic Individuality in a Remnant Dialect Community
Dan Beckett

Verbal Morphology in Cajun Vernacular English: A Comparison with Other Varieties of Southern English
Sylvie DuBois and Barbara M. Horvath

On Some Serious Next Millennium Rap Ishhh: Pharoahe Monch, Hip Hop Poetics, and the Internal Rhymes of Internal Affairs
H. Samy Alim

Reviews

Phonology and Language Use by Joan Bybee
Gregory K. Iverson

Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English by Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
Frank Parker

30.4 (December 2002) Special Issue: Teaching American English

edited by Michael Adams and Anne Curzan

Obituary for W. Nelson Francis

Articles

Teaching Sound Change
Richard W. Bailey

Teaching American English Online
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Goals and Teaching English Language Classes
Sonja L. Lanehart.

Teaching the Politics of Standard English
Anne Curzan

Teaching "Bad" American English: Profanity and Other "Bad" Words in the Liberal Arts Setting
Michael Adams

Teaching American English in France
Lois Nathan

Enter American
Elvira Myachinskaya

Reviews

Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English by John Russell Rickford and Russell John Rickford
Denise Troutman

30.3 (September 2002)

Coming Soon....


30.2 (June 2002) Special Issue: Language and Gender

edited by Janet Holmes

Articles

American English Social Dialect Variation and Gender
Natalie Schilling-Estes

Looking at girls in Corpora of English
Robert Sigley and Janet Holmes

Gender Differences in English Syntax
Britta Mondorf

Language and Woman's Place in Earlier English
Terttu Nevalainen

Gendered Features of Australian English Discourse: Discourse Strategies in Negotiated Talk
June Luchjenbroers

Information Structure in Male and Female Adolescent Talk
Jenny Cheshire and Ann Williams

30.1 (March 2002) Special Issue: Poetics

edited by Richard D. Cureton

Articles

Intonation in Two Scottish Poems
G. Burns Cooper

Stylistics and Linguistic Variation in Poetry
Elena Semino

The Emergence of Charles Olson's Prosody of the Page Space
Eleanor Berry

Momentary Stays, Exploding Forces: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Poetics of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost
Margaret H. Freeman

Schizophrenic Poetics: A Proposed Cure
Richard D. Cureton

29.4 (December 2001)

Articles

Principles of Pattern Selection: A Corpus-Based Case Study
Joybrato Mukherjee

Is out of Always a Preposition?
Bert Cappelle

The Diphthongization of /ay/: Abandoning a Southern Norm in Southern Maryland
David Bowie

Yorkshire English Two Hundred Years Ago
Maria F. Garcia-Bermejo Giner, and Michael Montgomery

Reviews

Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America by John McWhorter
Patricia Cukor-Avila

Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics by Barbara Johnstone
Ellen Johnson

Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein
Laurel J. Brinton

The Continental Backgrounds of English and Its Insular Development until 1154 by Hans Frede Nielsen
Fred C. Robinson

Beowulf: An Edition with Relevant Shorter Texts Edited by Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson
Paul E. Szarmach

29.3 (September 2001)

Articles

Chance as Cause of Language Variation and Change
Ronald R. Butterns

Proximal and Distal Demonstratives: A Corpus-Based Study
Simon Botley and Tony McEnery

"My Mother, Whenever She Passed Away, She Had Pneumonia": The History and Functions of whenever
Michael B. Montgomery and John M. Kirk

Defining Core Vocabulary and Tracking its Distribution across Spoken and Written Genres: Evidence of Gradience of Variation from the British National Corpus
David W. Lee

Reviews

The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style by Bryan A. Garner
Alan R. Slotkin

Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics by Hammond Bussman; translated and edited by Gregory P. Trauth and Kerstin Kazzai
Kathryn Riley

Language Teaching and Awareness by Jerry Gebhard and Robert Oprandy
Stephanie Moses

29.2 (June 2001)

Articles

A Corpus-Based Study of Compounding in English
Laurie Bauer and Antoinette Renouf

A Focus-Based Study of English Demonstrative Reference: With Special Reference to the Genre of Written Advertisements
Sun-Young Oh

Lexical Phonology and the Fricative Voicing Rule
Susan Kim

Linguistic Commercialism in and around the Paston and Cely Letters: An OED and Corpus-Based Approach
Manfred Markus

Reviews

Syntactic Structures Revisited: Contemporary Lectures on Classic Transformation Theory by Howard Lasnik
Frank Parker

Discourse in Late Modernity: Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis by Lilie Chouliaraki and Norman Fairclough
Pepi Lestyna

Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide edited by John Lawler and Helen Aristar-Dry
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

29.1 (March 2001)

In Memoriam

Frederic Cassidy William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Articles

Demonstratives in English: A Corpus-Based Study
Simon Botley and Tony McEnery

Metatalk in American Academic Talk: The Cases of point and thing
John M. Swales

Structuring Text: Discourse Deixis in Early Modern English Texts
Claudia Claridge

Reviews

Language Form and Language Function by Frederick J. Newmeyer
Richard D. Cureton

Linguistics for Non-Linguists: A Primer with Exercises, 3rd ed. by Frank Parker and Kathryn Riley
Dorothy G. Grimes

The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 3 edited by Roger Lass
Donka Minkova

28.4 (December 2000)

Articles

"I used to dance, but I don't dance now": The Habitual Past in English
Sali Tagliamonte and Helen Lawrence

Jakobson Revisited: Poetics, Subjectivity, and Temporality
Richard D. Cureton

Reviews

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker
John Algeo

An Introduction to the Languages of the World by Anatole V. Lyovin
Laura Wright

28.3 (September 2000)

Articles

Gerund Vs. Infinitive as Complement of Transitive Verbs in English: The Problems of "Tense" and Control"
Patrick J. Duffley

Exploring the Dialect of the Franco-Americans of Manchester, NH
Wendy Ryback-Soucy and Naomi Nagy

Diffusion of Dialect Words from New Orleans
Daniel Currie Hall

The Nationalization of a Southernism
Jan Tillery, Tom Wikle, and Guy Bailey

Lexical Doppelgängers
Michael Adams

Reviews

SPSS Student Version 9.0 for Windows
SPSS Base 9.0 Brief Guide
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Sprachatlas der Deutschen Schweiz edited by Rudolf Hotzenkocherle
Vol. 8 Wortgeographie V. Haustiere, Wald- und Landwirtschaft by Hans Bickel, et. al
Jürgen Eichhoff

28.2 (June 2000)

Articles

Short-a in Cincinnati: A Change in Progress
Charles Boberg and Stephanie Strassel

Subject-Verb Concord in a Postinsular Dialect: The Gradual Persistence of Dialect Patterning
Kirk Hazen

Bees, Nelsons, and Sterling Denominations: A Brief Look at Cockney Slang and Coinage
Antonio Lillo

Literary Dialect in The Yorker's Stratagem
Marianne Cooley

Reviews

An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics by Graeme Kennedy
Gerald Nelson

More Englishes: New Studies in Varieties of English 1988-1994 by Manfred Görlach
Even More Englishes: Studies 1996-1997 by Manfred Görlach
John Algeo

The Sociolinguistics Reader: Multilingualism and Variation, Vol. 1 edited by Peter Trudgill and Jenny Cheshire
The Sociolinguistics Reader: Gender and Discourse, Vol. 2 edited by Jenny Cheshire and Peter Trudgil
Robin Sabino

28.1 (March 2000) Special Issue: Historical Corpora

Articles

The World of English Historical Corpora: from Caedmon to the Computer Age
Matti Rissanen

Historical Change in the Language Use of Women and Men: Gender Differences in Dramatic Dialogue
Doug Biber and Jena Burges

Gender Differences in the Evolution of Standard English: Evidence from the Corpus of Early English Correspondence
Terttu Nevalainen

Conventions of Professional Writing: The Medical Case Report in a Historical Perspective
Irma Taavitsainen and Paivi Pahta

English Historical Corpora in the Classroom: the Intersection of Teaching and Research
Anne Curzan

Reviews

The English Language: An Owner's Manual by Thomas Lee and Stephen Tchudi
Matt Bauer

Language in Canada edited by John Edwards
Margery Fee

Describing Spoken English: An Introduction by Charles W. Kreidler
Charles Boberg

27.4 (December 1999)

Articles

New-Dialect Formation and Dedialectalization: Embryonic and Vestigal Variants
Peter Trudgill

The Search for Origins: Habitual Aspect and Newfoundland Vernacular English
Sandra Clarke

Stativity and Copula Absence in AAVE: Grammatical Constraints at the Subcategorical Level
Patricia Cukor-Avila

Grammatical and Phonological Manifestations of Null Copula in a Tri-Ethnic Contact Situation
Clare J. Dannenberg

Reviews

English as a Global Language By David Crystal
Laura Wright

The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary Earlier English By Johan Elsness
Sali Tagliamonte

How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics By Calvert Watkins
Jonathan Evans

British National Corpus Sampler By Lou Burnard
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

27.3 (September 1999)
Special Issue: Dynamics of a Sociolinguistic System: English Plural Formation in Augusta, Georgia by Michael Miller

Edited by: Ronald R. Butters, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., and Claiborne Rice

Introduction: English Plural Formation


Chapters

Chapter 1. Augusta, Georgia: Regional and Social Geography
Chapter 2. An Approach to the Reconstruction of Upcountry Lower Southern Creole
Chapter 3. Contact, Borrowing, and Plurals in -en
Chapter 4. The Effects of School on Mutation Plurals
Chapter 5. Modeling and Crossover
Chapter 6. Urban Social Geography and the Analogical Change of Measure Nouns
Chapter 7. An Unnoticed Feature of Eighteenth-Century English Grammar
Chapter 8. The West African Substratum in Southern American English

27.2 (June 1999)

Articles

Ethnographic Marking of Past be in Lumbee Vernacular English
Walt Wolfram and Jason Sellers

From Confederate Overalls to Designer Jeans: The Changing Southern Vocabulary
Lawrence M. Davis

Coordinators plus plus?
Peter G. Peterson

Case Government of Old English Verbs
Gwang-Yoon Goh

Reviews

Toward a Social Science of Language: Papers in Honor of William Labov Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin, and John Baugh
Sali A. Tagliamonte

Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley
Natalie Schilling-Estes

26.4 (December 1998)

Articles

String Frequency: A Cognitive Motivating Factor in Coalescence, Language Processing and Linguistic Change
Manfred Krug

Invitation as Style and Discourse in Nigerian English
V. O. Awonusi

A Tour through through
David Lee

Reviews

Speech Past and Present: Studies in English Dialectology in Memory of Ossi Ihalainen Edited by Juhani Klemola, Merja Kytö, and Matti Rissanen
W. Nelson Francis

An Empirical Grammar of the English Verb: Modal Verbs By Dieter Mindt
Graeme Kennedy

English Vocabulary Elements By Keith Denning and William R. Leben
Jared Klein

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language By David Crystal
Sonja Lanehart

English in Africa: An Introduction By Josef Schmied
Liobi Moshi

English Historical Linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics Edited by Derek Britton
Susan Pintzuk

26.3 (September 1998)

Articles

The Roles of the ME Preverbal y-, With Special Reference to Chaucer's English
Masayuki Higuchi

More on drug/dragged and snuck/sneaked: Evidence from the American Midwest
Thomas E. Murray

Inferring Dialect from a Postal Questionnaire
J. K. Chambers

Reviews

Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language among College Students By Connie Eble
Felix Rodriguez Gonzalez

Words, Names and History: Selected Writings of Cecily Clark Edited by Peter Jackson
B. R. Hutcheson

Traditional Dialect in the Modern World: A Glasgow Case Study By Caroline Macafee
Sharon Millar

The Search for the Perfect Language By Umberto Eco
Lee Pederson

26.2 (June 1998) Special Issue: Ebonics

Articles

Ebonics, King, and Oakland: Some Folks Don't Believe Fat Meat is Greasy
Geneva Smitherman

Language Ideology and Dialect: Understanding the Oakland Ebonics Controversy
Walt Wolfram

African American Vernacular English and Education: The Dynamics of Pedagogy, Ideology, and Identity
Sonja L. Lanehart

The Serious Side of Ebonics Humor
Jerrie L. C. Scott

The Anti-Ebonics Movement: "Standard" English Only
Elaine Richardson

Primary Documents on Ebonics Oakland School Board Resolution:
• Oakland School Board ResolutionAmended
• LSA Resolution on the Oakland Ebonics Issue
• TESOL Policy Statement on African American Vernacular English
• ASHA Position Paper on Social Dialects

Reviews

On the Origins of AAVE: A Rejoinder to Traute Ewers. A Review of The Origin of American Black English: Be-Forms in the HOODOO Text By Traute Ewers
Salikoko Mufwene

26.1 (March 1998)

Articles

Social Embedding of Changes in Progress
J. K. Chambers

The Grammar of Telegraphic Structures: Sentential and Nonsentential Derivation
Ellen L. Barton

Reviews

The Cambridge History of the English Language: English in Britain and Overseas Edited by Robert Bruchfield
Richard W. Bailey

A Biography of the English Language, Second Edition Edited by C. M. Millward
Sonja L. Lanehart

Lexical Change and Variation in the Southeastern United States 1930-1990 By Ellen Johnson
Manfred L. Görlach

The Columbia Guide to Standard American English By Kenneth Wilson
Robert S. Wachal

25.4 (December 1997) Essays in Memory of Sidney Greenbaum

Bibliography of the Writings of Sidney Greenbaum

Marie Gibney

Articles

Toward a Temporal Theory of Language
Richard D. Cureton

National Biases in Dictionaries
John Algeo

English Grammar and the Lexicography of Usage
Pam Peters and Wendy Young

Predicative XPs in English
Bas Aarts

Cleft Constructions in Spoken and Written English
Gerald Nelson

Subordinate Clauses in English
John M. Kirk

Automated Retrieval of Passives from Native and Learner Corpora: Precision and Recall
Sylviane Granger

25.3 (September 1997)

Articles

The Worcester Tremulous Scribe and the AElfric Manuscripts
William Schipper

Phonosymbolism and the Verb Cop
William Rozycki

Text Types and the History of Scots
Manfred Görlach

Pre-Twentieth-Century English and European Women's Linguistic Knowledge and Contributions
Ines Senna Shaw

Reviews

Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Constructions in English By Peter C. Collins
Pieter de Haan

The Meaning of Syntax By Connor Ferris
David Lee

The Disintegration of the English Strong Verb System By Marcin Krygier
Hans F. Nielsen

The Columbia Guide to Standard American English By Kenneth G. Wilson
Robert S. Wachal

Lexical Change and Variation in the Southeastern United States 1930-1990 By Ellen Johnson
Manfred Görlach

A Biography of the English Language, Second Edition By C. M. Millward
Sonja Lanehart

25.2 (June 1997)

Articles

The Development of Orthographic Wh- in Early Middle English
Alexander M. Bruce

Two Surprising Facts of English
Eric Hamp

Negative Attack: American and Canadian
Ludwig Deringer

British Educational Policy, Sociolinguistics, and Accent
Sharon Millar

Making Transatlantic Connections between Varieties of English: The Case of Plural Verbal -s
Michael Montgomery

The Investigation of a Sound Change in Progress: /ae/ to /e/ in Midwestern American English
Christine Zeller

Reviews

Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors By William Labov
Manfred Görlach

Sociolinguistics: A Sociological Critique By Glyn Williams
Barbara Johnstone

English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions By David Denison
Paivi Pahta

A Communicative Grammar of English By Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik
Kathryn Riley

The English Infinitive By Patrick J. Duffley
Christain Mair

History of Linguistics, Volumes 1 and 2 Edited by Giulio Lepschy
W. Nelson Francis

25.1 (March 1997)

In Memoriam: Sidney Greenbaum


Articles

Russianisms in Modern English
Viktor V. Kabakchi

A Formulation of Metaphorical In/Out of Phrases
Yonglin Yang

Positional Variation of the Adjunct Only in Written British English
Andrew W. Cairncross

Reviews

Critical Discourse Analysis By Norman Fairclough
Bruce W. Hawkins

Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents By Ben Rampton
Marjory Meechan

Multilingualism By John Edwards
Carol Myers-Scotton

24.4 (December 1996)

Articles

Soda or Pop?
Luanne Von Schneidemesser

The Pronoun Y'all: Questions and Some Tentative Answers
Natalie Maynor

GreaZy/GreaSy and Other /Z/-/S/ Choices in Southern Pronunciation
Marvin Ching

The Persistence of Southern American English
Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery

The Language of Identity
Sonja Lanehart

An Acoustical Analysis of Raven I. McDavid, Jr.'s Pronunciation of Vowel Norms for the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada
Bruce Southard

Reviews

American English Dictionaries on CD-ROM
Thomas J. Creswell

Language Variation in North American English: Research and Teaching Edited by A. Wayne Glowka and Donald M. Lance
Bruce Southard

"Heartland" English: Variation and Transition in the American Midwest Edited by Timothy C. Frazer
Joan H. Hall

24.3 (September 1996)

Articles

Webster's Lenative Poisons
Louise E. Wright

Attitudes Toward Towards Increasing Segmentalization: Complex and Phrasal Verbs in English
Laurel S. Brinton

A New Look at "Predicative-only" Adjectives in English
Bengt Jacobsson

Language in Percy Janes' Novella, The Picture on the Wall
Graham Shorrocks

LAMR / LAWS and the Main Chance

Lee Pederson

Reviews

English Corpus Linguistics Edited by Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg
John M. Kirk

Linguistic Variation and Change by James Milroy
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register Edited by Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan
Manfred Görlach

24.2 (June 1996)

Articles

Old English Prosody
Benjamin H. Carroll, Jr.

A Note on Old English Kinship Semantics
Guillermo Bartelt

The Trouble with Graffiti
Dagmar Joswig-Mehnert and George Yule

Word Choice: Lexical Variation in Two Canadian Surveys
Gaelan Dodds De Wolf

Reviews

Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz, vol 6: Wortgeographie 3, and vol. 7: Wortgeographie 4 Edited by Rudolf Hotzenkocherle
Jürgen Eichhoff

Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series Editor: Michael S. Lewis-Beck
J. K. Chambers

Language and the Law Edited by John Gibbons
Roger W. Shuy

Dialects and American English By Walt Wolfram
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

24.1 (March 1996)

Articles

Oddments of English
Dwight Bolinger

Orthography and Historical Linguistics
Roy M. Liuzza

Early Modern English Consonants
Robert A. Peters

LAWCU Work Sheets
Lee Pederson

Management of Linguistic Databases
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. and Rafal S. Konopka

Reviews

Early English in the Computer Age. Explorations through the Helsinki Corpus Edited by Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, and Minna Palander-Collin
Manfred Görlach

The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland, Scots Section, volume 3: Phonology Edited with an introduction by J. Y. Mather and H. H. Speitel, cartography by G. W. Leslie, foreward by David Abercrombie
John Harris

Kleiner deutscher Sprachatlas. Band 1, Konsonantismus; Teil 2, Frikative, Sonanten und Zusatzkonsonanten Edited by Werner H. Veith and Wolfgang Putschke, in collaboration with Lutz Hummel. With an index of localities prepared by Friedhelm Schafer
Hans F. Nielsen

The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments between Language and Literature Edited by Nigel Fabb, Derek Attridge, Alan Durant, and Colin MacCabe
Michael R. Brown

23.1-2 (1990-1995)

Articles

Harold B. Allen: A Reminiscence
Frederic G. Cassidy

Bibliography of the Writings of Harold B. Allen
Michael D. Linn

Elements of Word Geography
Lee Pederson

A Reanalysis of the Dialect Boundries of the Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest
Michael D. Linn

Education and Gender-Related Differences in Verb Forms
Virginia McDavid

Dialect, Dialect Area, and Social Dialect
Michael I. Miller

The Asp That Didn't Bite Cleopatra
Rudolph C. Troike

Scholaraly Responsibility and the Representation of Dialects: The Case of English in Texas
Gary Neal Underwood

Changing Names: Onomastic Remarks on Hungarian-Americans
Miklos Kontra

The Briticisms are Coming! How British English is Creeping into the American Language
John Algeo

Syntactic Features of Muncie African-American English: Eight Case Studies
Lawrence M. Davis and Xiozhao Huang

The Canada-US Border as a Vanishing Isogloss: The Evidence of chesterfield
J. K. Chambers

The Significance for the Study of Canadian English of the Work of Harold B. Allen
A. M. Kinloch

The Survival of Local Lexical Items as Specific Markers in Vancouver English
Robert J. Gregg

Dialect as Evidence in Law Cases
Roger W. Shuy

English Spelling for Worldwide Use
Frederic G. Cassidy

According to
Dwight Bolinger

Bring, Take, Come, and Go
C. F. Hockett

Shakespeare's Speech
Robert A. Peters

22.2 (October 1989 [1993])

Articles

Manuscript Variants and Old English Word Forms
Benjamin Normark

The Contractions of not: A Historical Note
Barron Brainerd

The Diffusion of a Borrowed Sound Change
Betty S. Phillips

Vowel Changes in Columbus, Ohio
Erik R. Thomas

Form and Function in Illocutionary Acts
Patricia A. Lee

Reviews

Grammar and Gender By Dennis Baron;
Women, Men, and Language By Jennifer Coates;
A Feminist Dictionary Edited by Cheris Kramarae and Paul A. Treichler with assistance from Ann Russo
Muriel Schulz

German Family Names in Kentucky Place Names By John Leighly;
Indian Place Names in Alabama By William A. Read. Revised and with a Forward, Appendix, and Index by James B. McMillan;
Place Names of the Outer Banks By Roger L. Payne
Mary R. Miller

Patterns of Spoken English: An Introduction to English Phonetics By Gerald Knowles
John Kwock-Ping Tse

Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis By Anna Wierzbicka
Bert Peeters

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