Publications
Articles
- Jamieson, E, Hicks, G., Domínguez, L. & Schmid, M.S. submitted. Accommodation, acquisition, attrition? The (un)changing grammars of Standard Southern British English speakers in Belfast.
- Hart, A., Jamieson, E, Domínguez, L. & Turner, J. submitted. The linguistic and social impact of schooling on the acquisition of grammatical case by Polish heritage children in England.
- Jamieson, E, Baker, L., Domínguez, L., Hicks, G. & Schmid, M.S. in revision. (In)stability of grammatical gender in adult first language attrition: The role of the L2.
- Domínguez, L., Jamieson, E, Hicks, G. & Schmid, M.S. resubmitted. Examining the 'unified approach' to native language attrition: The role of linguistic and cognitive perspectives.
- Schmid, M.S., Jamieson, E, Baker, L., Domínguez, L. & Hicks, G. resubmitted. Formally equivalent, functionally different: Acquisition and attrition of the German past tenses in contact with English.
- Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E & Smith, J. resubmitted. HAVE-raising and the structure of predicative possession.
- Jamieson, E. accepted. Adnominal and pronominal demonstrative patterns in English and Scots. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
- Baker, L. & Jamieson, E. 2026. How studying varied input contexts can further our understanding of L1 grammatical attrition: Insights from bidialectal speakers. Languages 11(7), 147. [10.3390/languages11070147]
- Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E & Smith, J. 2025. Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle: Plugging the amn't gap. Journal of Linguistics 61(2), 369-396.[10.1017/S0022226724000203]
- Jamieson, E, Smith, J., Adger, D., Heycock, C. & Thoms, G. 2025. 'When intuitions (don’t) fail': Combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots. English Language and Linguistics 29(1), 1-34. [10.1017/S1360674323000679]
- Hicks, G., Domínguez, L., Jamieson, E & Schmid, M.S. 2024. L1 grammatical attrition in late Spanish/English bilinguals in the UK: Aspectual interpretations of present tense in Spanish. The Language Learning Journal. 52(2), 145-158. [10.1080/09571736.2023.2293024]
- Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E & Smith, J. 2023. English contracted negation revisited: Evidence from Scots dialects. Language 99(4), 726-759. [10.1353/lan.2023.a914192]
- Jamieson, E. 2020. Viewing dialect change through acceptability judgments: A case study in Shetland dialect. Glossa 5(1):19, 1-28. [10.5334/gjgl.979]
Chapters and proceedings
- Adger, D., Jamieson, E & Smith, J. to appear. Sociolinguistics and Minimalist Syntax. In Grohmann, K. and Leivada, E. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism and its Applications. [lingbuzz/005605]
- Jamieson, E & Smith, J. 2026. The sociolinguistic patterns of progressive statives in Scots: Perception and production. In Werner, V., Schützler, O., Schlüter, J., Knappe, G., Sönning, L. & Vetter, F. (eds.) Juggling Intra- and Extralinguistic Factors in the Study of Variation and Change. DeGruyter Brill. 119-152. [10.1515/9783112208281-005]
- Jamieson, E & Macuch Silva, V. 2025. Psycholinguistic processing tasks and the study of question bias. In Trinh, T., Benz, A., Yatsushiro, K. and Krifka, M. (eds.) Bias Questions: Experimental Results and Theoretical Modelling. Language Science Press. 261-292. [10.5281/zenodo.17158192]
- Jamieson, E. 2025. 'People widnae understand that, wint they no?': Negative anchor tag questions in northern British Englishes. In Duncan, D. & Robinson, M. (eds.) English Sociosyntax: Theory, Evidence, Approaches. DeGrutyer. 195-226. [10.1515/9783111426280-007]
- Smith, J., Stuart-Smith, J., Macdonald, R. & Jamieson, E. 2024. Scots and Scottish Standard English. In Fox, S. (ed.) Language in Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press. 151-177. [10.1017/9781108769617.009]
- Jamieson, E. 2020. Syntacticizing intonation? Tag questions in Glasgow Scots. In Kentner, G. and Kremers, J. (eds.) Prosody in Syntactic Encoding. DeGrutyer. 219-244. [10.1515/9783110650532]
- Jamieson, E. 2018. 'Negation' and CHECK moves in the Shetland dialect of Scots. In Hucklebridge, S. and Nelson, M. (eds.) Proceedings of NELS 48. GLSA. 67-80.
- Jamieson, E. 2018. Experimental evidence for the contextual acceptability of biased questions and tag questions in English. In van Alem, A., Ionova, A. and Pots, C. (eds.) ConSOLE XXVI. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. 331-349. [available here]
- Jamieson, E. 2016. Imperative commands in the Shetland dialect of Scots: Nordic origins?
in Giles, I., Chapot, L., Cooijmans, C., Foster, R. and Tesio, B. (eds.)
Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North. Norvik Press Ltd. 98-116 [available here]
Websites and corpora
- Domínguez, L., Hicks, G., Jamieson, E & Schmid, M.S. 2023. CoNGA: A Corpus of Native Grammar Attrition. University of Southampton. conga.soton.ac.uk
- Smith, J., Adger, D., Aitken, B., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E & Thoms, G. 2019. The Scots Syntax Atlas. University of Glasgow. scotssyntaxatlas.ac.uk
Manuscripts
- Macuch Silva, V. & Jamieson, E. in prep. Interpreting questions with epistemic biases and tracking questioner beliefs in online processing. [lingbuzz/008832]
Media