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New-dialect formation in Canada [[electronic resource] ] : evidence from the English modal auxiliaries / / Stefan Dollinger
| New-dialect formation in Canada [[electronic resource] ] : evidence from the English modal auxiliaries / / Stefan Dollinger |
| Autore | Dollinger Stefan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.], : John Benjamins Pub., c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina | 427/.971 |
| Collana | Studies in language companion series |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Canada - History
English language - Dialects - Canada English language - Variation - Canada Canadianisms |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
90-272-8523-3
9786613092328 1-283-09232-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456281903321 |
Dollinger Stefan
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| Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.], : John Benjamins Pub., c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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New-dialect formation in Canada [[electronic resource] ] : evidence from the English modal auxiliaries / / Stefan Dollinger
| New-dialect formation in Canada [[electronic resource] ] : evidence from the English modal auxiliaries / / Stefan Dollinger |
| Autore | Dollinger Stefan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.], : John Benjamins Pub., c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina | 427/.971 |
| Collana | Studies in language companion series |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Canada - History
English language - Dialects - Canada English language - Variation - Canada Canadianisms |
| ISBN |
90-272-8523-3
9786613092328 1-283-09232-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781266803321 |
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Dollinger Stefan
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| Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.], : John Benjamins Pub., c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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New-dialect formation in Canada : evidence from the English modal auxiliaries / / Stefan Dollinger
| New-dialect formation in Canada : evidence from the English modal auxiliaries / / Stefan Dollinger |
| Autore | Dollinger Stefan |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.], : John Benjamins Pub., c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina | 427/.971 |
| Collana | Studies in language companion series |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Canada - History
English language - Dialects - Canada English language - Variation - Canada Canadianisms |
| ISBN |
90-272-8523-3
9786613092328 1-283-09232-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
New-Dialect Formationin Canada Evidence from the English modal auxiliaries -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of Maps -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About this book -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Colonial Englishes and Canadian English -- 1.2 Ontario English -- 1.3 Aims of the present study -- 2 CANADIAN ENGLISH: A RESEARCH HISTORY OF THE 'OTHER' VARIETY OF NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH -- 2.1 Identity, standard and variation in Canadian English -- 2.1.1 Homogeneity and evolving notions of Standard CanE -- 2.1.2 The 'standard' in reference works -- 2.1.3 Regional Canadian Englishes -- 2.2 Research on Canadian English prior to 1954 -- 2.3 A survey of linguistic studies on CanE -- 2.3.1 Lexis -- 2.3.2 Phonetics and Phonology -- 2.3.2.1 Canadian Raising -- 2.3.2.2 Canadian Shift -- 2.3.2.3 Regional surveys -- 2.3.2.3.1 Early linguistic atlas data -- 2.3.2.3.2 British Columbia -- 2.3.2.3.3 The Canadian Prairie: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba -- 2.3.2.3.4 Ontario -- 2.3.2.3.5 Quebec -- 2.3.2.3.6 Maritimes - New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia -- 2.3.2.3.7 Newfoundland (and Labrador) -- 2.3.2.4 The Dialect Topography of Canada Project -- 2.3.3 Morphology and syntax -- 2.3.3.1 Disparate morphosyntactic variables -- 2.3.3.2 Syntax and ethnic minorities of CanE -- 2.3.4 Language attitudes, pragmatics and bilingualism -- 2.3.4.1 Language attitudes -- 2.3.4.2 Pragmatics 'proper' -- 2.3.4.3 Bilingualism: code-switching -- 2.4 Summary of synchronic research on CanE -- 2.5 The shortage of diachronic studies on Canadian English -- 2.5.1 Apparent-time and real-time studies -- 2.5.2 Diachronic studies on Ontario English -- 2.5.3 Summary -- 3 ONTARIO 1776-1850: AN EXTERNAL LANGUAGE HISTORY -- 3.1 Preliminaries: settlement in waves -- 3.2 The first wave: American immigration.
3.2.1 Demographic input until 1812 -- 3.2.1.1 American input -- 3.2.1.2 German speakers -- 3.2.1.3 Scottish Gaelic speakers and Scots speakers -- 3.2.1.4 The Irish before 1815 -- 3.2.1.5 French speakers -- 3.2.1.6 Dutch settlers -- 3.2.1.7 Loyalist First Nations -- 3.2.1.8 Other immigrant groups -- 3.2.2 The size of the population in 1812 -- 3.3 The second wave -- 3.3.1 Disentangling dialects: Scottish, Irish and regional English English -- 3.3.1.2 Scottish immigrants: Gaelic, Scots and Scottish English -- 3.3.1.3 Irish immigration -- 3.3.1.4 Post-1815 American immigration -- 3.3.1.5 German immigration -- 3.3.1.6 Other immigrant groups -- 3.3.2 Social stratification of second wave immigrants -- 3.3.3 Benchmarks of Early Ontarian society -- 3.3.3.1 Schools and education -- 3.3.3.2 Demographic developments and mobility before the railway -- 3.4 Summary -- 4 THE CORPUS OF EARLY ONTARIO ENGLISH, PRE-CONFEDERATION SECTION (CONTE-pC) -- 4.1 External periodization -- 4.2 Internal period division -- 4.3 What makes a text Ontarian? -- 4.3.1 Geographical considerations -- 4.3.2 Questions of allegiance -- 4.3.2.1 Anne Powell -- 4.3.2.2 Eleanora Hallen -- 4.3.3 Summary -- 4.4 Corpus design -- 4.4.1 Source materials: genres selected -- 4.4.2 Social stratification -- 4.4.3 SIN speakers -- 4.4.4 Corpus size and sampling -- 4.5 Text samples -- 4.5.1 Local Ontario newspapers -- 4.5.2 Diaries -- 4.5.3 Letters: the 'letters received' at the Archives of Ontario -- 4.6 Coding and text headers -- 5 NEW-DIALECT FORMATION IN EARLY ONTARIO -- 5.1 Two scenarios for the origin of CanE -- 5.1.1 Bloomfield (1948) -- 5.1.2 Scargill (1957) and (1985) -- 5.2 Polygenetic theories of colonial Englishes -- 5.2.1 Notions of swamping -- 5.2.2 Dialect mixing proper -- 5.2.2.1 Founder principle -- 5.2.2.2 Colonial lag -- 5.2.3 Dialect mixing in early Ontario. 5.3 New-dialect formation theory (Trudgill 2004) -- 5.3.1 Tabula rasa situations -- 5.3.2 Some other models -- 5.3.3 Six key processes -- 5.3.4 Three stages in new-dialect formation -- 5.3.4.1 Stage I: when adults accommodate -- 5.3.4.2 Stage II: Children select -- 5.3.4.3 Stage III: The majority principle -- 5.3.4.4 Focussing -- 5.3.5 Homogeneity and drift in CanE -- 5.3.6 Some problems of applying new-dialect formation theory -- 5.4 Summary -- 6 LATE MODERN ENGLISH MODAL AUXILIARIES: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 6.1 Definitions and terminology -- 6.1.1 Formal characteristics -- 6.1.2 Modality: root, deontic, dynamic, epistemic and other concepts -- 6.1.3 Epistemic uses since LModE: increase, stagnation or decline? -- 6.2 Semantic areas: choosing variables -- 6.2.1 Permission, ability and possibility: CAN/COULD and MAY/MIGHT -- 6.2.2 Obligation and necessity: MUST and HAVE TO -- 6.2.3 Volition and futurity: SHALL and WILL -- 6.2.4 SHOULD, WOULD and OUGHT TO -- 6.3 Methodological considerations -- 6.3.1 Comparing distributions: the parallel corpora -- 6.3.2 Methodological caveat I: the letter sections -- 6.3.3 Methodological caveat II: how to trace historical connections -- 7 CAN (COULD) vs. MAY (MIGHT) -- 7.1 A diachronic sketch of CAN and MAY -- 7.2 Sentence types -- 7.2.1 Overall development in EModE and LModE -- 7.3 Semantic notions of CAN and MAY -- 7.3.1 Overall figures: distribution of functions -- 7.3.2 CAN in Root possibility and Permission uses -- 7.3.3 CAN in 25-year periods -- 7.3.4 CAN vs. MAY and the three stages of new-dialect formation -- 7.3.4.1 Middle vs. Lower Class speakers -- 7.3.4.2 Different levels of development and a new stage I -- 7.3.4.3 CONTE-pC and Trudgill (2004) -- 7.3.5 Long-term developments of epistemic and root uses -- 7.3.6 Summary -- 7.4 Functions of COULD and MIGHT -- 7.4.1 Negative contexts. 7.4.2 Affirmative contexts -- 7.4.3 COULD and MIGHT and the three stages of new-dialect formation -- 7.5 COULD and MIGHT: epistemic developments -- 7.6 Conclusion -- 8 MUST vs. HAVE TO -- 8.1 The variables MUST and competing semi-modals -- 8.1.1 HAVE TO -- 8.1.2 Controlling the variable contexts -- 8.2 The rise of HAVE TO -- 8.3 The modalities of MUST and HAVE TO -- 8.3.1 Development of LModE epistemic MUST -- 8.3.2 Coding for epistemic necessity: LModE competition -- 8.3.3 Epistemic and root uses: longterm perspective -- 8.4 Three stages of new-dialect formation and the rise of HAVE TO -- 8.5 Summary -- 9 SHALL vs. WILL -- 9.1 The prescriptive rule and previous research -- 9.2 SHALL and WILL -- 9.2.1 Semantic notions and the variable context -- 9.2.2 Data selection -- 9.2.3 SHALL and WILL and the choice of independent variables -- 9.2.3.1 Genre (text type) -- 9.2.3.2 Sentence type -- 9.2.4 SHALL and WILL in the first person -- 9.2.4.1 Diachronic development -- 9.2.4.2 SIN-speakers -- 9.2.4.3 Social class -- 9.2.4.4 SHALL and WILL and the three stages -- 9.2.5 SHALL and WILL in the second and third persons -- 9.2.5.1 Type of subject -- 9.2.5.2 Voice -- 9.2.5.3 The three stages -- 9.2.6 Summary -- 10 SHOULD, WOULD and OUGHT TO -- 10.1 The variable context -- 10.1.1 LModE variants -- 10.1.2 Semantic notions -- 10.2 Hypothetical SHOULD and WOULD -- 10.3 Non-hypothetical OUGHT TO, SHOULD and WOULD -- 10.3.1 LModE diachronic development in non-hypotheticals -- 10.3.2 Hypotheticals and non-hypotheticals in the three stages -- 10.4 Epistemic modality in early CanE -- 10.4.1 OUGHT TO -- 10.4.2 WOULD -- 10.4.3 SHOULD -- 10.5 Summary -- 11 CONCLUSION -- 11.1 The modals in early Canadian English -- 11.2 Epistemicity and late-modern CanE -- 11.3 Colonial lag and the founder principle -- 11.4 M. Bloomfield (1948) or Scargill (1957,1985). 11.5 The modal auxiliaries and the three stages of new-dialect formation -- 11.6 Dating Canadian English: focussing -- 11.7 Further research avenues -- 12 APPENDICES -- Appendix 1: Corpus of Early Ontario English -- Appendix 2: Ontario names -- Appendix 3: Immigration data -- Appendix 3.1: British Isles immigration -- Appendix 3.2: Arrivals at Quebec -- Appendix 3.3: First land surveys -- Appendix 3.4: Ontario districts -- Appendix 4: Demographic studies around 1812 -- Appendix 5: Social networks in early Ontario -- Appendix 6: Semi-Modals in early CanE -- Appendix 7: Statistics for CAN (COULD) / MAY (MIGHT) -- Appendix 7.1 -- Appendix 7.2 -- Appendix 7.3 -- Appendix 7.4 -- Appendix 7.5 -- Appendix 7.6 -- Appendix 7.7 -- Appendix 7.8 -- Appendix 7.9 -- Appendix 7.10 -- Appendix 7.11 -- Appendix 8: Statistics for MUST / HAVE TO -- Appendix 8.1 -- Appendix 8.2 -- Appendix 8.3 -- Appendix 8.4 -- Appendix 9: Statistics for SHALL / WILL -- Appendix 9.1 -- Appendix 9.2 -- Appendix 9.3 -- Appendix 10: Statistics for SHOULD / WOULD / OUGHT TO -- Appendix 10.1 -- Appendix 10.2 -- Appendix 10.3 -- Appendix 10.4 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- General Index -- The series Studies in Language Companion Series. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817084003321 |
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Dollinger Stefan
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| Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.], : John Benjamins Pub., c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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