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Devyani Sharma | |
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics | |
| Department of Linguistics | Office: Arts 1.17C |
| Queen Mary, University of London | Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8338 |
| Mile End Road, London E1 4NS | Email: initial dot lastname at qmul.ac.uk |
| United Kingdom | Office hours (Sept-Dec 2011): Wed 11-12, Fri 2-3 |
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Research interests
Sociolinguistics, new varieties of English, bilingualism, variation, syntax, typology.
Recent research project: Dialect development and style in a diasporic community (ESRC, 2008-2010)
I am completing a book on the emergence of new English dialects out of bilingual continua (Oxford University Press). I am also currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of World Englishes (Oxford University Press, with Markku Filppula and Juhani Klemola) and Research Methods in Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, with Rob Podesva). My recent ESRC project examined the transmission of dialect features across generations in an urban dialect contact situation. I am also interested in internal factors in variation and change, with a focus on syntactic variation in bilingual speech and cross-dialectal comparisons. This interest in variation extends to formal models, in particular (stochastic) Optimality Theory and Lexical Functional Grammar, in relation to English dialects, bilingual grammars, and the typology of case and agreement in Indo-Aryan languages. I am also currently an Associate Editor at the Journal of Sociolinguistics.
Curriculum Vitae
Selected work
- 'Cognitive and social factors in dialect shift: Gradual change in London Asian speech'
(2011, Language Variation and Change)
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- 'Style repertoire and social change in British Asian English'
(2011, Journal of Sociolinguistics)
doi
- 'Lectal focusing in interaction: A new methodology for the study of superdiverse speech'
(2011, working paper, Queen Mary OPALs; with Ben Rampton)
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- 'Return of the Native: Hindi in British English'
(2011, in Chutnefying English , Kothari and Snell, eds., Penguin India)
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- 'Contact-based aspectual restructuring: A critique of the lexical aspect hypothesis'
(2010, Queen Mary OPALs Series; with Ashwini Deo)
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- 'A new methodology for the study of aspect in contact: Past and progressive in Indian English'
(2011, in Aspect in Grammatical Variation , Walker, ed., Benjamins; with Ashwini Deo)
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- 'Typological diversity in New Englishes'
(2009, English World-Wide 30:2)
doi
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- 'AAVE/Creole copula absence: A critique of the imperfect learning hypothesis'
(2009, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:1; with John Rickford)
doi
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- 'Typology in variation: A probabilistic approach to be and n't in the Survey of English Dialects'
(2007, English Language and Linguistics 11:6; with Joan Bresnan and Ashwini Deo)
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- 'Typological variation in the ergative morphology of Indo-Aryan languages'
(2006, Linguistic Typology 10:3, with Ashwini Deo)
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- 'Dialect stabilization and speaker awareness in non-native varieties of English'
(2005, Journal of Sociolinguistics 9:2)
doi
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- 'Language transfer and discourse universals in Indian English article use'
(2005, Studies in Second Language Acquisition 27:4)
doi
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- 'Discourse clitics and constructive morphology in Hindi'
(2003, in Nominals Inside and Out , eds. M. Butt and T. King)
book
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- 'The pluperfect in native and non-native English: A comparative corpus study'
(2002, Language Variation and Change 13:3)
doi
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- 'Case marking and person hierarchy effects in Kashmiri'
(2001, in Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax , ed. P. Sells)
book
- Gendered Practices in Language (co-edited, 2001)
book
(please email me if you'd like a copy of a paper)
Teaching
| Current | Other |
| History of English | Sociolinguistics |
| Bilingualism | Language and Gender |
| Language in the UK | Dialects of English |
| Sociolinguistic Theory (MA) | Research Methods in Linguistics |
| Formal Approaches to Variation (MA) | World Englishes (MA) |
| Contact and Change (MA) |