Alexandra
D’Arcy’s
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publications & presentations
Did
you ever see my blog on the OUP website?
·
February 2010: Ode to a prescriptivist (in honour
of my Grandmother, Grace D’Arcy, who taught me to love language)
·
March 2010: What is it you do? (about being a linguist)
·
April 2010: Liking (or at least understanding) like: Part I (an
introduction to like)
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July 2010: Liking (or at least understanding) like: Part II (a follow
up in which I discuss the work like
does)
PUBLICATIONS (2013
onward; see my CV for complete history and details)
in the works
·
in press. Joining the
western region: Sociophonetic shift in Victoria (with R. Roeder & S.
Onosson). Journal of English Linguistics
46.2.
·
in press. Settler
colonial Englishes are distinct from postcolonial Englishes (with D. Denis). American Speech.
·
in press.
Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function: A transdisciplinary case study
(with M. Wiltschko & D. Denis). Language
in Society.
·
to appear. Deriving
homogeneity in a settler colonial variety of English (with D. Denis). American Speech.
·
to appear. The relevance of
variationist sociolinguistics for World Englishes. In D. Schreier, M. Hundt
& E.W. Schneider (eds.), The
Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
·
to
appear. Hedge words (with J. Barchas-Lichtenstein). In L. Miller, A. Agha, J.
Sidnell, L. Graham, B. Farnell & B. Urciuoli (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Malden:
Wiley-Blackwell.
·
under
contract. Linguistic Variation and
Language Change: Synchrony Meets Diachrony. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
2017
* Discourse-Pragmatic
Variation in Context: Eight Hundred Years of like. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [publisher’s link]
#800yearsoflike
2016
* Outliers,
impact and rationalization in linguistic change (with S.A. Tagliamonte & C.
Rodríguez Louro). Language 92.4.
824-849.
2015
* Stability,
stasis and change: The longue durée of intensification. Diachronica 32.4. 449-493.
* Quotation and
advances in understanding syntactic systems. Annual Review of Linguistics 1.1. 43-61.
* Not always
variable: Probing the vernacular grammar (with S.A. Tagliamonte). Language Variation and Change 27.3.
255-285.
* At the
crossroads of change: Possession, periphrasis, and prescriptivism in Victoria
English. In P. Collins (ed.), Grammatical
Change in English World-Wide. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
43-64. [publisher’s link]
* Variation,
transmission, incrementation. In P. Honeybone & J. Salmons (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 583-602. [book
website; publisher’s link]
2014
*
Functional
partitioning and possible limits on variability: A view of adjective comparison
from the vernacular. Journal of English
Linguistics 42.3. 318-344.
*
Discourse.
In C. Bowern & B. Evans (eds.), The
Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. New York: Routledge. 410-422.
[publisher’s link]
2013
*
Proceedings from the XIVth International Conference on
Methods in Dialectology, 2011 (with A. Barysevich & D. Heap, eds.). Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang. xiii + 348. [publisher’s link]
*
Asymmetrical
trajectories: The past and present of –body/–one (with B. Haddican, H. Richards, S.A.
Tagliamonte, & A. Taylor). Language
Variation and Change 25.3: 287-310.
*
Variation
and change. In R. Bayley, R. Cameron & C. Lucas (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics.
New York: Oxford University Press. 484-502. [publisher’s link]
* Advances in
sociolinguistic transcription methods. In C. Mallinson, B. Childs & G. Van
Herk (eds.), Data Collection in
Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications. New York: Routledge. 187-190. [publisher’s link] [updated version
published in the second edition, 2018]
downloadable
phonology papers, .pdf (also available via the
TWPL website):
*
Unconditional neutrality: Vowel harmony in a
two-place model. 2004. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics
23.2. 1-46.
*
Yowlumne reexamined: A challenge for
contrastive specification. 2003. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics
20. 21-46.
PRESENTATIONS (2013 onward; see my CV
for complete history and details)
in the works
* Eight
hundred years of like and the fallacy
of the Recency Illusion. Deans’
Lunchtime Lecture Series, Faculty of Humanities, University of Victoria.
Victoria Public Library. April 2018.
* Kids
these days and language change. UVic Speakers Bureau, Reynolds Secondary School, Victoria. April 2018.
* Language
history and linguistic corpora: Perspectives on like and the like. Plenary presentation at Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics X. University of
Extremadura. May 2018.
* What
the kids can tell us about language change. Plenary presentation at International Computer Archive of Modern
and Medieval English 39. University of Tampere. June 2018.
* Watching
the future unfold: A longitudinal analysis of future temporal reference (with
T. Hirota). Refereed talk at International
Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English 39. University of Tampere.
June 2018.
2018
* Expanding
the quotative dialectic: Evidence from indirect quotation (with I. Enríquez
García). American Dialect Society.
Salt Lake City.
* Archives and language history. Treasures & Tea, University of
Victoria Special Collections.
* Through the looking glass: Watching kids
change language. Invited colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan.
2017
* Diachronic
insights to colliding changes (with Ildara Enríquez García). American Dialect Society. Austin TX.
* The
life cycle of research and the ‘ethics police’. American Dialect Society. Austin TX.
* At
the cusp of change. Keynote presentation at Canada 150 Celebration. Department
of Linguistics, University of Toronto.
* I didn’t learn like grammar: Discourse,
society and language change. Plenary presentation at the Northwest Linguistics Conference 33. University of British
Columbia.
* Change
and the longue dure. Plenary presentation at Studies in the History of the English Language 10. University of
Kansas.
*
Habitual behaviours: Teasing apart the variable
contexts of the English past habitual (with D. Denis & E. Larson). New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46.
University of Wisconsin Madison.
* Individuals,
communities and the sociolinguistic canon (with S.A. Tagliamonte). New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46.
University of Wisconsin Madison.
* Kids
these days and language change. UVic Speakers Bureau, Belmont Secondary School, Victoria.
* Extending
the window on change: Moving beyond synchrony. Invited colloquium, Department
of Linguistics, University of Oregon.
2016
* Think-een
about (ING) (with N. Rosen & J. Ankutowicz). American Dialect Society, Washington, DC.
* A
comparative diachrony of utterance-final tags in Canadian English (with D.
Denis). Cascadia Workshop in
Sociolinguistics, University of Washington.
* Deconstructed
functionality: Confirmational variation in Canadian English through time (with
D. Denis & M. Wiltschko). Discourse-Pragmatic
Variation and Change, University of Ottawa.
* Reconfiguring
quotation over the longue durée. International
Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-19). University of
Duisburg-Essen.
* Spoken
quotation and general questions of language change. Invited colloquium,
Language Variation and Change Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, University of Indiana Bloomington.
* Charting
the grammaticalization trajectory of right
(with d. Denis & M. Wiltschko). NWAV
45, University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University.
* Kids
these days and language change. UVic Speakers Bureau, RON Talks, Victoria.
2015
* City,
province, or region? What do the vowels of Victoria English tell us? (with S.
Onosson & B. Roeder). American
Dialect Society, Portland OR.
* Old njooz or
new nooz? A diachronic look at yod dropping (with J. Serediak). American Dialect Society, Portland OR.
* Boys don’t
increment—or do they? Department of Linguistics, University of Washington.
* Input,
homogeneity, and stuff (like that) (with D. Denis). Studies in Historical English Linguistics (SHEL) 9, University of
British Columbia.
* Tracing like and the like. 14th International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp,
Belgium.
* Corpora,
Canadian English, the longue durée, and stuff like that (with Derek Denis). La Science du Mot, University of
Victoria.
* Simultaneous innovation and conservation:
Unpacking Victoria’s vowels (with S. Onosson & B. Roeder). NWAV 44, University of Toronto.
* Deriving variation in function: A case study
of Canadian eh and its kin (with M. Wiltschko). NWAV 44,
University of Toronto.
2014
* Outliers,
impact, and rationalization (with C. Rodríguez Louro & S. Tagliamonte). LSA 88, Minneapolis, MN.
*
Stability,
stasis, and change. Discourse-Pragmatic
Variation and Change (DiPVaC) 2, Newcastle University.
* What have we
been do-een? (ING) is not binary (with N. Rosen & J. Ankutowicz). Change and Variation in Canada (CVC) 8,
Queens University.
* Homogeneity,
convergence, mega-trends, and stuff like that (with D. Denis). NWAV 43, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign & University of Chicago.
* In a sea of
Canadian English: Victoria’s linguistic legacy. Plenary lecture at Linguistic Association of Canada and the
United States (LACUS),
University of British Columbia.
2013
* Matters of
counting: When corpus linguistics meets variationist sociolinguistics.
Department of Linguistics, University of
Hawai‘i at Manoa.
* The
incrementation problem: What we know, what we think we know, and what we have
yet to confirm. Department of Linguistics, University
of Western Australia.
* The absolutely fabulous (recent) history of intensification. Invited
paper at Language Variation and Change
in Australia (LVC-A) 1, La Trobe University.
* So slow yet
totally frenetic: Intensification in longitudinal perspective. Studies in the History of English (SHEL) 8,
Brigham Young University.
* Does one change
have ramifications for the other? NWAV
42, University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University.
* Global
perspectives on linguistic innovation (with C. Rodríguez Louro & S.
Tagliamonte). NWAV 42, University of
Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University.
[last
update: March 31, 2018]