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Alternative one (Romany Amber)

Gen Z constructions: an overview (Sarah Sparling)

Wicked as an intensifier (Jim Wood)

Welcome

This Project explores syntactic diversity found in varieties of English spoken in North America. By documenting the subtle, but systematic, differences in the syntax of English varieties, it provides a crucial source of data for the development of theories of human linguistic knowledge.

Below you will see a map showing survey results from some of the sentences we have studied. You will find more maps on various phenomena pages, and you may also browse them directly here.

Check out the YGDP Data Explorer to create your own maps from our survey data.

Phenomena

A-prefixing

After-perfects

All the further

Alls construction

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Bare got

Canadian eh

Come with

Dative presentatives

Done my homework

Double comparatives

Double is

Drama SO

Expletive they

Fixin’ to

For to infinitives

Have yet to

Invariant be

Inversion in embedded questions

Liketa

Long-distance reflexives

Multiple modals

Needs washed

Negative concord

Negative inversion

Null copula

Perfective done

Personal datives

Positive anymore

Relative possessive that's

Repetition clefts

So don't I

Split subjects

Steady

Stressed BIN (been)

Subject contact relatives

Try get

Tryna

Try and

Verbal rather

Wants in

What all

Wicked as an intensifier

You do you