Australian English Reimagined by Louisa Willoughby;Howard Manns;

Author:Louisa Willoughby;Howard Manns;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2020-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

But Pawley goes some way in establishing how these “universals” and other nonstandard features might be considered a part of AusVE. He does this in the first instance by highlighting how in AusVE these features appear with nonstandard (but, again, not exclusively Australian) phonological variables. For instance, these informal morphosyntactic features often appear with “h-dropping” and the use of -in (i.e. alveolar nasal) instead of -ing (i.e. velar nasal) word endings (see Loakes, this volume). Pawley in the second instance sets out some of the contextual reasons AusE speakers might shift into AusVE. For instance, focusing on one specific variable, Pawley (2008, 2016) discusses how and why AusE speakers use grammatically gendered pronouns for inanimate objects and animals (of which the sex might not be known). For instance:

(6) What we’ll be looking for is a tree with a straight barrel on ‘im.

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