Quotative be like is a rapid global innovation, yet no evidence pinpoints when it arose, under
what circumstances, or the consequences of its emergence. Using a data set spanning four …

We examine constructed dialogue in a longitudinal corpus of Australian Aboriginal English
(AE) spoken in Perth, Australia. We conduct a variationist analysis of naturalistic data from …

Across Englishes, frequently used epistemic/evidential complement-taking predicates (e/e
ctps) have undergone conventionalisation, whereby subject+ e/e verb constructions are …

We examine constructed dialogue in a longitudinal corpus of Australian Aboriginal English
(AE) spoken in Perth, Australia. We conduct a variationist analysis of naturalistic data from …

In this paper we examine sociolinguistic constraints on the narrative present perfect (PP) in
Australian English (eg He couldn't talk. That's how freaked out he was. And I've just yelled …

Quotative be like has been described as “one of the most striking developments [in
English]”(: 493). Despite the vast research on quotatives and the upsurge of be like, the …

This thesis offers the first comprehensive sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic investigation
of tense/aspect variation in Australian English narratives, focusing on the Narrative Present …

Australian English has only recently entered the Differentiation phase of the Dynamic Model
(Peters, 2014), and this phase often leads to more observable social and regional variation …

This study examines how Arabic and English narratives are constructed by Saudi Arabic
speakers. The data consist of interviews with five Saudi Arabic speakers studying for their …

This chapter examines the uses and development of the present perfect, the progressive,
modals and semi-modals-categories of the tense/aspect/modality systems of the verb phrase …