selected publications
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academic article
- Gross JBoyd SLeinonen TWalker JA. A tale of two cities (and one vowel): sociolinguistic variation in Swedish. Language Variation and Change. 28:225-247. 2016
- Meyerhoff MWalker JA. An existential problem: the sociolinguistic monitor and variation in existential constructions on Bequia (St. Vincent and the Grenadines). Language in Society. 42:407-428. 2013
- Walker JA. Form, function, and frequency in phonological variation. Language Variation and Change. 24:397-415. 2012
- Meyerhoff MWalker JA. Grammatical variation in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 27:209-234. 2012
- Hoffman MFWalker JA. Ethnolects and the city: Ethnic orientation and linguistic variation in Toronto English. Language Variation and Change. 22:37-67. 2010
- Walker JA. Migration, accommodation and language change: Language at the intersection of regional and ethnic identity. Language in Society. 38:526-529. 2009
- Walker JA. New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English Modal Auxiliaries. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 13:269-272. 2009
- Cacoullos RTWalker JA. On the persistence of grammar in discourse formulas: a variationist study of that. Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences. 47:1-43. 2009
- Walker JAWalker, JamesRena Torres CacoullosJames A. Walker. The Present of the English Future: Grammatical Variation and Collocations in Discourse. Language (Washington). 85:321-354. 2009
- Meyerhoff MWalker JA. The persistence of variation in individual grammars: Copula absence in ?urban sojourners? and their stay-at-home peers, Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines). Journal of Sociolinguistics. 11:346-366. 2007
- Walker JA. “There’s bears back there”: Plural existentials and vernacular universals in (Quebec) English. English World-Wide: a journal of varieties of English. 28:147-166. 2007
- WALKER JA. ZERO COPULA IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN: EVIDENCE FROM BEQUIA. American Speech: a quarterly of linguistic usage. 81:146-163. 2006
- Poplack SWalker JAMalcolmson R. An English ''like no other''?: Language Contact and Change in Quebec. Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 51:185-213. 2006
- Van Herk GWalker JA. S marks the spot? Regional variation and early African American correspondence. Language Variation and Change. 17:113-131. 2005
- Walker JA. The ain't constraint: Not-contraction in early African American English. Language Variation and Change. 17:1-17. 2005
- Walker JA. The handbook of language variation and change.. Language (Washington). 80:591-594. 2004
- Walker JA. Review of Sociocultural and historical contexts of African American English , edited by Sonja L. Lanehart. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 19:424-428. 2004
- Walker JA. Using the past to explain the present: Tense and temporal reference in Early African American English. Language Variation and Change. 13:1-35. 2001
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book
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chapter
- Walker JAMeyerhoff M. Bequia English. 128-143. 2015
- Walker J. Contrasting patterns of agreement in three communities. 7-21. 2015
- Walker JA. On the syntax-prosody interface in American American English. 387-402. 2015
- Boyd SHoffman MFWalker JA. Sociolinguistic variation among multilingual youth: comparing Swedish cities and Toronto. 290-306. 2015
- Meyerhoff MWalker J. Subject and object pronoun use in Bequia (St Vincent & the Grenadines). 67-85. 2015
- Walker JAHoffman MF. Vignette 5a: fieldwork in immigrant communities. 178-184. 2013
- Walker JMeyerhoff M. Studies of the community and the individual. 175-194. 2013
- Walker JA. Variation analysis. 440-459. 2013
- Walker J. Collocations in grammaticalization and variation. 225-238. 2011
- Walker JSidnell J. Inherent variability and coexistent systems: negation on Bequia. 39-55. 2011
- Walker J. Affairs of state: Defining and coding stativity in English and English-based creole. Ed. Walker JA. 95-109. 2010
- Walker J. Introduction. Ed. Walker JA. 1-12. 2010
- Walker JHowe D. Negation and the creole-origins hypothesis: Evidence from early African American English. 109-140. 2000
- Walker J. Rephrasing the copula: Contraction and zero in early African American English. 35-72. 2000
- Walker JSamarin WJ. The phonology of Sango. 861-880. 1997
- Walker JSamarin WJ. Verb-marking in Sango predicate chains. 113-128. 1994
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conference paper
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erratum
- Walker JA. Form, function, and frequency in phonological variation – CORRIGENDUM. Language Variation and Change. 253-253. 2013
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review
- Walker JA. Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact. Language in Society. 787-789. 2018
- Walker JA. The New Cockney: New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 337-340. 2018
- Walker JA. Sociolinguistic fieldwork. Language (Washington). 776-779. 2014
- Walker JA. Principles of linguistic change, vol 3, Cognitive and cultural factors. Language in Society. 93-96. 2013
- Walker JA. Analysing Variation in English. Diachronica: international journal for historical linguistics. 552-557. 2012