needs+PAST PARTICIPLE in regional Englishes on Twitter

needs+PAST PARTICIPLE in regional Englishes on Twitter. Strelluf, C. World Englishes, 39(1):119–134, 2020. _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/weng.12451

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The use of needs with a past participle (as in ‘The car needs washed’) has been identified as a feature of the US Midland, and of Englishes in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and northern England. However, linguists have generally not been able to study needs+PAST in natural language data. This study reports from a large corpus of needs+PAST productions built from tweets in 20 US cities, 17 UK cities, and 13 other cities. It confirms needs+PAST as a productive feature of Scotland, Belfast, Newcastle, and the US Midland, and supports claims that the construction spread via immigration. In doing so, it validates studies based on elicitations of grammaticality judgments, while also demonstrating new techniques to study low-frequency linguistic variables. It provides quantitative evidence of the extent to which a settler variety of English may leave an imprint of itself over several centuries, and of the durability of regional dialect boundaries.

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	volume = {39},
	copyright = {© 2020 John Wiley \& Sons Ltd},
	issn = {1467-971X},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/weng.12451},
	doi = {10.1111/weng.12451},
	abstract = {The use of needs with a past participle (as in ‘The car needs washed’) has been identified as a feature of the US Midland, and of Englishes in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and northern England. However, linguists have generally not been able to study needs+PAST in natural language data. This study reports from a large corpus of needs+PAST productions built from tweets in 20 US cities, 17 UK cities, and 13 other cities. It confirms needs+PAST as a productive feature of Scotland, Belfast, Newcastle, and the US Midland, and supports claims that the construction spread via immigration. In doing so, it validates studies based on elicitations of grammaticality judgments, while also demonstrating new techniques to study low-frequency linguistic variables. It provides quantitative evidence of the extent to which a settler variety of English may leave an imprint of itself over several centuries, and of the durability of regional dialect boundaries.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2024-06-14},
	journal = {World Englishes},
	author = {Strelluf, Christopher},
	year = {2020},
	note = {\_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/weng.12451},
	pages = {119--134},
}

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