Eline Zenner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eline Zenner plays a role.
2024 Māori loanwords in New Zealand English: What can a picture-naming task reveal for language planning? Language Problems and Language Planning 48:1, pp. 48–74 | Article
The Indigenous language of ANZ, Māori is undergoing significant revitalisation, following severe loss of vitality caused by English colonialism. One dimension to this revitalisation is the normalising of borrowings from Māori into New Zealand English (NZE). However, there are currently no… read more
2021 Chapter 3. The alternation between standard and vernacular pronouns by Belgian Dutch parents in child-oriented control acts Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan, Ghimenton, Anna, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), pp. 51–80 | Chapter
This paper studies the social meaning of standard and vernacular pronouns of address in Dutch by zooming in on the position they hold in parents’ control acts to their children. Linking the hyperstandardized linguistic situation in Flanders with the Western-European ideal of democratic parenting,… read more
2018 English as a lingua franca in Europe: The identification of L1 and L2 accents: A multifactorial analysis of pan-European experimental data Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16:2, pp. 494–518 | Article
While empirical research on attitudes towards languages and linguistic varieties has become increasingly popular from the 1960s onwards (e.g. Lambert, Hodgson, Gardner, & Fillenbaum, 1960), experimental investigations into the ability to correctly identify the origin of speakers are in… read more
2017 Chapter 5. The borrowability of English swearwords: An exploration of Belgian Dutch and Netherlandic Dutch tweets Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts, Beers Fägersten, Kristy and Karyn Stapleton (eds.), pp. 107–136 | Chapter
2016 Individual differences and in situ identity marking: Colloquial Belgian Dutch in the reality TV show "Expeditie Robinson” Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives, Romano, Manuela and M. Dolores Porto (eds.), pp. 39–77 | Article
Over the past decades, sociolinguists and Cognitive Linguists have shifted their attention to individual differences and intra-speaker variation (Hernández-Campoy & Cutillas-Espinosa 2013; Barlow 2013). This chapter aims to add to this trend by conducting a bottom-up analysis of the speech of… read more
2015 English-only job advertising in the Low Countries: The impact of job-related and company-related predictors Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 4:1, pp. 6–20 | Article
This paper presents a multifactorial quantitative corpus-based analysis of the distribution of English-only ads in the Low Countries. The dataset consists of approximately one thousand job ads, published in Vacature (a Belgian Dutch job ad magazine) and Intermediair (a Netherlandic Dutch job ad… read more
2014 Core vocabulary, borrowability and entrenchment: A usage-based onomasiological approach Diachronica 31:1, pp. 74–105 | Article
It is often claimed in contact linguistics that core vocabulary is highly resistant to borrowing. If we want to test that claim in a quantitative way, we need both a quantitative measure of coreness and a method for quantifying borrowability. We suggest here a usage-based operationalization of… read more