take up #9 as a semantic isogloss on the Canada‐US border

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper explores semantic isoglosses of polysemous words, an understudied aspect of the Canada‐US border by drawing ontake up #9, an isogloss that appears to be spreading through the mainland Canadian population. The variable, which is approached from a philological‐lexicographic as well as a quantitative‐statistical perspective, is interpreted in the light of recent European cross‐borders studies. Analogues with the situations in Austrian German (Austria‐Germany) and British English (Scotland‐England) are drawn. Set in a pluricentric framework, this paper argues that the Canada‐US border remains a productive linguistic divide. Moreover, it is suggested that types of unexplored lexico‐semantic variables may be responsible for some identity work across this international border, one of only two contiguous borders among the Englishes of the Inner Circle.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 6 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.