Items where Author is "Britain, David J"

Book Section

Britain, David J (2010) Dialectology. In: Encyclopaedia of Linguistics. Routledge, London, pp. 127-133. ISBN 9780415421041.

Britain, David J (2009) 9. Language and space: The variationist approach. In: Language and Space. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (30). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, pp. 142-163. ISBN 9783110180022. Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110220278.142

Britain, David J (2009) 'Big bright lights' versus 'green and pleasant land'? The unhelpful dichotomy of 'urban' v 'rural' in dialectology. In: Arabic dialectology. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics (53). Brill, Leiden, pp. 223-248. ISBN 9789004172128.

Britain, David J and Fox, S (2008) The Regularisation of the Hiatus Resolution System in British English: A Contact-Induced 'Vernacular Universal'? In: Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond. Routledge, London, pp. 177-205. ISBN 978-0-415-99239-8.

Monograph

Matsumoto, Kazuko and Britain, David J (2009) The role of social networks in understanding language maintenance and shift in post-colonial multilingual communities — The case of the Republic of Palau in the Western Pacific. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (2008) On the wrong track?: a non-standard history of non-standard /au/ in English. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J and Fox, Sue (2008) Vernacular universals and the regularisation of hiatus resolution. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J and Sudbury, Andrea (2008) What can the Falkland Islands tell us about Diphthong Shift? Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (2008) The importance of 'elsewhere': Looking beyond London and Ireland in the creation of Australian English. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Felser, Claudia and Britain, David J (2007) Deconstructing what with absolutes. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (2007) When is a change not a change?: a case study on the dialect origins of New Zealand English. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Matsumoto, Kazuko and Britain, David J (2003) Contact and obsolescence in a diaspora variety of Japanese: The case of Palau in Micronesia. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (2002) The British history of New Zealand English? Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (2002) Phoenix from the ashes?: The death, contact and birth of dialects in England. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (2002) Surviving 'Estuary English': Innovation diffusion, koineisation and local dialect differentiation in the English Fenland. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Matsumoto, Kazuko and Britain, David J (2001) Conservative and innovative behaviour by female speakers in a multilingual Micronesian society. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (2001) Dialect contact and past BE in the English Fens. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (2001) If A changes to B, make sure that A exists: A case study on the dialect origins of New Zealand English. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Matsumoto, Kazuko and Britain, David J (2000) Hegemonic diglossia and pickled radish: symbolic domination and resistance in the trilingual Republic of Palau. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Sudbury, Andrea and Britain, David J (2000) Is Falkland Island English linguistically a southern hemisphere variety? Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J and Sudbury, Andrea (2000) There's sheep and there's penguins: `Drift' and the use of singular verb forms of BE in plural existential clauses in New Zealand and Falkland Island English. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (2000) The difference that space makes: an evaluation of the application of human geographic thought in sociolinguistic dialectology. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (1998) High rising terminals in New Zealand English: Who uses them, when and why. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (1998) A little goes a long way, as far as analysing grammatical variation and change in New Zealand English is concerned. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Britain, David J (1995) The sociolinguistic development of 'Canadian Raising' in the English Fens. Working Paper. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.