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SUMMARY:Grammatical innovations in Multicultural London English - David Ha
 ll (Queen Mary\, University of London)
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CONTACT:Giulia Bovolenta
DESCRIPTION:Recent years have seen growing interest in interdisciplinary r
 esearch at the intersection of sociolinguistics and formal linguistic theo
 ry\, sometimes called Sociosyntax (see e.g.\, Cornips and Corrigan 2005\; 
 Lingua special issue on formalizing syntactic variation (2010)\, vol 120.5
 ). Recent research into urban multiethnolects in the UK (e.g.\, Cheshire e
 t al 2011) has revealed unexpected syntactic properties in emerging variet
 ies of English\, particularly Multicultural London English (MLE). Research
  on MLE has so far been carried out in a variationist sociolinguistic fram
 ework (Cheshire et al 2011 a.o)\, but here I report on my research into gr
 ammatical innovations in MLE in a broadly generative framework. I focus on
  the new pronoun man\, preposition+definite article drop (P-D-drop)\, and 
 why...for interrogatives. I will present analyses for the three phenomena\
 , and discuss how the study of grammatical variations picked up through so
 ciolinguistic research can inform our understanding of the limits of the l
 anguage faculty.
LOCATION:Room B4\, Institute of Criminology\, Sidgwick Site
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