Jean Aitchison

Aitchison, Jean 2010 Disasters, devastation and polysemy Words and their meaning: A deep delve from surface distribution intounderlying neural representation, Horne, Merle and Mikael Roll (eds.), pp. 163–179 | Article

This paper explores meaning change, especially how listeners and readers handle polysemy, a topic which has come to the forefront of attention in recent years. It discusses in particular words for catastrophic events, which perhaps because of their dramatic content, seem to be prone to polysemy.… read more

Aitchison, Jean 2008 Lifting the veil: Uncovering language origin Unity and Diversity of Languages, Sterkenburg, Piet van (ed.), pp. 17–27 | Article

Aitchison, Jean 2004 The rhinoceros’s problem: the need to categorize Categorization in the History of English, Kay, Christian and Jeremy J. Smith (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article

Aitchison, Jean 1995 Chimps, children and creoles: the need for caution The Biology of Language, Puppel, Stanislaw, pp. 1 ff. | Article

Aitchison, Jean 1987 Reproductive furniture and extinguished professors Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 3 ff. | Article

Aitchison, Jean 1987 The Language lifegame: Prediction, Explanation and linguistic change Explanation and Linguistic Change, Koopman, Willem F., Frederike van der Leek, Olga Fischer and Roger Eaton (eds.), pp. 11 ff. | Article

Hosali, Priya and Jean Aitchison 1986 Butler English: A Minimal Pidgin? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1:1, pp. 51–79 | Article

Butler English is the conventional name for a reduced and simplified variety of Indian English which has been characterized as a "minimal pidgin." This paper analyzes in detail the speech of 7 speakers (aged between 17 and 65) with a view to finding out, first, the salient features of this variety… read more

Aitchison, Jean and Rama Kant Agnihotri 1985 ‘I deny that I’m incapable of working all night’: Divergence of negative structures in British and Indian English Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985, Eaton, Roger, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek (eds.), pp. 3 ff. | Article

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