Miriam Meyerhoff
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Miriam Meyerhoff is a New Zealand sociolinguist. In 2020 she was appointed as a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Early life and family Meyerhoff was born in 1964, the daughter of poet Mary Cresswell and philosopher . Her father died in a car accident the following year, and her mother married logician Max Cresswell in 1970. The family subsequently moved to New Zealand.
Miriam Meyerhoff's Published Works
Published Works
- The handbook of language and gender (2003) (587)
- Working papers in linguistics (1994) (491)
- The Community of Practice: Theories and methodologies in language and gender research (1999) (448)
- The globalisation of vernacular variation (2003) (151)
- Teenagers’ acquisition of variation: A comparison of locally-born and migrant teens’ realisation of English (ing) in Edinburgh and London (2011) (101)
- Sounds pretty ethnic, eh?: A pragmatic particle in New Zealand English (1994) (90)
- Replication, transfer, and calquing: Using variation as a tool in the study of language contact (2009) (83)
- The handbook of language, gender, and sexuality (2014) (74)
- Different Voices, Different Views: An Introduction to Current Research in Language and Gender (2008) (62)
- Significant or random?: A critical review of sociolinguistic generalisations based on large corpora (2014) (60)
- The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality: Ehrlich/The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality (2014) (59)
- Sorry in the Pacific: Defining communities, defining practices (1999) (57)
- The persistence of variation in individual grammars: Copula absence in 'urban sojourners' and their stay-at-home peers, Bequia (st Vincent and the Grenadines) (2007) (52)
- Introducing Sociolinguistics, 2nd edition (2006) (50)
- Variation, contact and social indexicality in the acquisition of (ing) by teenage migrants1 (2012) (47)
- ZERO COPULA IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN: EVIDENCE FROM BEQUIA (2006) (40)
- Resistance to creolization: An interpersonal and intergroup account (1994) (35)
- Forty years of language change on Martha's Vineyard (2007) (34)
- The emergence of creole subject–verb agreement and the licensing of null subjects (2000) (32)
- Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis (2015) (32)
- Accommodating your data: The use and misuse of accommodation theory in sociolinguistics (1998) (31)
- Social lives in language : sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities : celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff (2008) (30)
- Writing a linguistic symphony: Analyzing variation while doing language documentation (2017) (23)
- Formal and cultural constraints on optional objects in Bislama (2002) (22)
- An existential problem: The sociolinguistic monitor and variation in existential constructions on Bequia (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) (2013) (21)
- Chapter 21. Communities of Practice (2008) (18)
- Dealing with gender identity as a sociolinguistic variable 1 (2014) (16)
- Hitting an Edinburgh target: Immigrant adolescents' acquisition of variation in Edinburgh English (2014) (16)
- Turning variation on its head: Analysing subject prefixes in Nkep (Vanuatu) for language documentation (2015) (16)
- Lexical Shift in Working Class New Zealnd English: Variation in the Use of Lexical Pairs (1993) (14)
- Constraints on null subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu) : social and linguistic factors (2000) (13)
- Introduction: Social lives in language (2008) (13)
- Sociolinguistic methods for data collection and interpretation (2010) (12)
- Extending ELAN into variationist sociolinguistics (2015) (12)
- Language, Gender, and Sexuality (2019) (12)
- Grammatical variation in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) (2012) (11)
- 15. All the same?: The emergence of complementizers in Bislama (2002) (10)
- Biographies, agency and power1 (2005) (10)
- Another Look at the Topology of Serial Verb Constructions: The Grammaticalization of Temporal Relations in Bislama (Vanuatu) (2001) (10)
- Transitive marking in contact Englishes (1996) (10)
- Variation and Gender (2014) (10)
- Attitudes to gender and creoles : A case study on mokes and titas (2004) (10)
- Methods, innovations and extensions: Reflections on half a century of methodology in social dialectology† (2016) (10)
- Linguistic change, sociohistorical context, and theory-building in variationist linguistics: new-dialect formation in New Zealand (2006) (9)
- Varieties of English. 1, The British Isles . Edited by Bernd Kortmann & Clive Upton (2009) (9)
- Hans Goebl, Peter H. Nelde, Zdeněk Starý, Wolfgang Wölck (eds.), 1997, Kontaktlinguistik/Contact Linguistics/Linguistique de contact: Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung/An international handbook of contemporary research/Manuel international des recherches contemporaines, vol. 2. (2000) (9)
- A case-study in historical sociolinguistics beyond Europe: Reconstructing patterns of multilingualism in a linguistic community in Siberia (2018) (7)
- Claiming a Place: Gender, Knowledge, and Authority as Emergent Properties (2008) (7)
- Unnatural bedfellows? The sociolinguistic analysis of variation and language documentation (2019) (6)
- 16. Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature (2009) (6)
- Studies of the Community and the Individual (2013) (6)
- The syntax and semantics of olsem in Bislama (1996) (6)
- (N)WAVES and means : a selection of papers from NWAVE 24 (1996) (6)
- A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables: Big issues with smaller samples in language variation (2017) (5)
- Be I no gat : constraints on null subjects in Bislama (1997) (5)
- Bequia sweet/ Bequia is sweet: syntactic variation in a lesser-known variety of Caribbean English (2008) (5)
- Empirical problems with domain-based notions of 'simple' (2008) (4)
- Preliminary Investigations into Sound Change in Auckland (2018) (4)
- The Routledge sociolinguistics reader (2010) (4)
- Borrowing from Bislama into Nkep (East Santo, Vanuatu): Quantitative and qualitative perspectives (2016) (4)
- Syntactic variation and change: the variationist framework and language contact (2013) (4)
- Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability (2009) (4)
- ‘But is it linguistics?’: Breaking down boundaries (2003) (4)
- A trajectory of belonging: negotiating conflict and identity in an early childhood centre (2020) (3)
- A Vanishing Act: Tonkinese Migrant Labour in Vanuatu in the Early 20th Century (2002) (3)
- Order in the creole speech community (2019) (3)
- The persistence of grammatical constraints: "Urban sojourners" from Bequia (2006) (3)
- Engendering identities: Pronoun selection as an indicator of salient intergroup identities (1997) (3)
- Styles, standards and meaning (2020) (3)
- All these years and still counting: why quantitative methods still appeal (2015) (2)
- Becoming local: Exploring adolescents’ sociolinguistic limits and potential (2009) (2)
- Pivots of the Caribbean? Low-back vowels in eastern Caribbean English (2020) (2)
- Variation and language (2018) (2)
- The emergence of creole subject-verb agreement (1999) (2)
- Syntactic variation and change (2013) (1)
- Social psychology of language and language variation. (2002) (1)
- Borrowing in Apparent Time: With some comments on attitudes and universals (2014) (1)
- Negotiating wellbeing and belonging in an early childhood centre: What children’s conflicts can teach us (2020) (1)
- Updating "gender" as a sociolinguistic variable (1994) (1)
- ‘I’m a big boy, you’re a baby’. Negotiating labels, group boundaries and identities in an early childhood community of practice (2021) (1)
- Bislama reference grammar (review) (2005) (1)
- In pursuit of social meaning (2019) (1)
- Variation and style (2018) (1)
- Restrictions on Relative Clauses in Auckland, New Zealand (2020) (1)
- Definite Change Taking Place: Determiner Realization in Multiethnic Communities in New Zealand (2020) (1)
- Uncovering hidden constraints in micro-corpora of contact Englishes (2012) (1)
- Prestige, Overt and Covert (2006) (1)
- Sample design and the envelope of variation (2015) (0)
- Contributors (2002) (0)
- Linguistics Society of New Zealand Language & Society Conference 14-16 November 2018 (2018) (0)
- Gender (2018) (0)
- Complementation and the creole continuum in the Eastern Caribbean (2022) (0)
- EDITOR'S NOTE (2006) (0)
- Subject and object pronoun use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) (2015) (0)
- Language contact (2018) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Serial verbs in Oceanic: A descriptive typology . By Terry Crowley. Oxford University Press. 2002. (2005) (0)
- Representing Trans: An Epilogue (2017) (0)
- Representing Trans: Linguistic, legal and everyday perspectives (2017) (0)
- Language Contact: New Perspectives edited by Muriel Norde, Bob de Jonge and Cornelius Hasselblatt (2012) (0)
- Representing trans: an introduction (2017) (0)
- Social class (2018) (0)
- Corpora as a source of data (2015) (0)
- Borrowing: A Pacific Perspective [Book Review] (2007) (0)
- Written surveys and questionnaires as a source of data (2015) (0)
- Social networks and communities of practice (2018) (0)
- Multilingualism and language choice (2018) (0)
- Variation in Existentials on Bequia ( St Vincent and the Grenadines ) : Grammatical or Lexical ? (2010) (0)
- Holmes, Janet (b.1947) (2006) (0)
- An end of egalitarianism? Social evaluations of language difference in New Zealand (2015) (0)
- Language attitudes (2018) (0)
- Verbal politeness – interactional options (2018) (0)
- 21. Gender and language contact: how gender is/isn’t marked in language contact (2019) (0)
- 15. All the same (2002) (0)
- LSY volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (2015) (0)
- Creating gender distinctions: Migrant teens’ acquisition of sociolinguistic variation (2011) (0)
- Introduction (2018) (0)
- Hitting an Edinburgh Target (2014) (0)
- Real time and apparent time (2018) (0)
- Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical debates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 458. Pb. £21.99, $39.99. (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- Special issue Variation in the Pacific (2020) (0)
- Talking power: The politics of language: Robin Tolmack Lakoff, New York: Basic Books, 1990 (1993) (0)
- Introduction: Variation in the Pacific (2020) (0)
- Marking the Past and the Present in Bequia (2009) (0)
- The voice of Polan[t]: The acquisition of English (t,d) variation by Polish migrants in Edinburgh (2020) (0)
- Finding a topic (2015) (0)
- Bor Bor Women (2012) (0)
- Growing Up with Tok Pisin: Contact, Creolization, and Change in Papua New Guinea's National Language (review) (2003) (0)
- The narcissism of small differences: Sociolinguistic points of comparison in Auckland (2021) (0)
- War and peace in the nursery: young children’s conflicts in a multi-ethnic early childhood education and care setting (2018) (0)
- Feminism, family, and identity in Israel: Women's marital names [Book Review] (2012) (0)
- A pragmatic particle in New Zealand English (2016) (0)
- Looking back and looking ahead (2018) (0)
- A Collection of Dinka Songs (2012) (0)
- Variation in Pidgin and Creole languages (2020) (0)
- Sociolinguistics and immigration: linguistic variation among Scottish-born and Polish-born adolescents in Edinburgh (2009) (0)
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