{"id":10575,"date":"2019-05-10T11:16:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T10:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=10575"},"modified":"2019-05-10T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T10:16:56","slug":"dr-laura-bailey-preposition-dropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/05\/10\/dr-laura-bailey-preposition-dropping\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Laura Bailey investigates preposition dropping with new research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/people\/1707\/bailey-laura\">Dr Laura Bailey<\/a>, a lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the\u00a0Department of English Language and Linguistics, has carried out research into when people in South East England leave out the words \u2018to the\u2019 in sentences.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u2018You\u2019re bound to have heard \u2013 or rather, not heard \u2013 this around Kent or Sussex. People will often say in informal speech \u201cShall I come library to meet you?\u201d instead of \u201cShall I come to the library to meet you?\u201d. They leave out the preposition, \u201cto\u201d, and the article \u201cthe\u201d, but only in very particular circumstances.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bailey investigated the unconscious rules for when this happens and when it doesn\u2019t, and was surprised to find that the people of Kent are just like the Greeks and the Italians in this respect \u2013 making them different to northern English speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Examples included:<br \/>\n\u2022 Does this train go Canterbury West?<br \/>\n\u2022 Not been Shoreditch in ages<br \/>\n\u2022 What pub are you going?<br \/>\n\u2022 The cat\u2019s going vets<\/p>\n<p>Allegations that the linguistic quirk is \u2018chav-speech\u2019 are refuted by Dr Bailey. She says it is a feature that came with the wave of Londoners into Kent and Essex in the mid-20th century, and is now seen in Multicultural London English (MLE), the new variety spoken in London. Other researchers have found examples in the Greek, Italian and German languages:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hijazi Arabic: Rayha almadrasa means \u2018I\u2019m going the school\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Kiezdeutsch (informal variety of German, the Berlin equivalent of MLE): Morgen ich geh arbeitsamt means \u2018Tomorrow I\u2019m going job centre\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Greek: Pao kinimatografo means \u2018I\u2019m going cinema\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bailey\u2019s conclusions, <a href=\"https:\/\/revistascientificas.us.es\/index.php\/iberia\/article\/view\/7242\"><em>Some Characteristics of Southeast English preposition dropping<\/em><\/a>, are published in<em> Iberia<\/em>, an international journal of theoretical linguistics, show that the linguistic features found in any one variety of language are the result of combinations of properties, and pop up wherever the conditions are right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Laura Bailey, a lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the\u00a0Department of English Language and Linguistics, has carried out research into when people in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/05\/10\/dr-laura-bailey-preposition-dropping\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":10577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10580,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions\/10580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}