Jill Bowie

Honorary Research Fellow, Survey of English Usage
j.bowie@ucl.ac.uk

Research

I am a linguist specializing in English grammar, with research interests in recent change in English and the grammar of spoken discourse. I have worked at the Survey of English Usage on several funded research projects, first on The Changing Verb Phrase in Present-Day British English and then on two projects developing website resources for secondary English education. I have co-authored a number of publications with Survey colleagues Bas Aarts and Sean Wallis. As an honorary member of the Survey staff, I have continued this collaboration, alongside my paid editorial work for publishers including UCL Press.

Recently I co-edited, with Bas Aarts and Gergana Popova (of Goldsmiths, University of London), the Oxford Handbook of English Grammar (2020), and co-authored a chapter on grammar and discourse in that volume. A chapter on recent grammatical change in English, co-authored with Bas Aarts, is forthcoming in the six-volume New Cambridge History of the English Language.

List of academic publications

Bowie, Jill, and Bas Aarts (forthcoming) Recent grammatical change in English. In: Joan Beal (ed.), Transmission, Change and Ideology, Vol. III of New Cambridge History of the English Language (6 vols., general editor Raymond Hickey). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Aarts, Bas, Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova (eds.) (2020) The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bowie, Jill, and Gergana Popova (2020) Grammar and discourse. In: Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar, 554–578. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Aarts, Bas, Sean Wallis and Jill Bowie (2018) -Ing clauses in spoken English: structure, usage and recent change. In: Elena Seoane, Carlos Acuña-Fariña and Ignacio Palacios-Martínez (eds.), Subordination in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (Topics in English Linguistics), 129–154. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Bowie, Jill, and Bas Aarts (2016) Clause fragments in English dialogue. In: María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo and Ignacio M. Palacios-Martínez (eds.), Corpus Linguistics on the Move: Exploring and Understanding English through Corpora (Language and Computers: Studies in Digital Linguistics, 79), 259–288. Leiden; Boston: Brill Rodopi.

Bowie, Jill, and Sean Wallis (2016) The to-infinitival perfect: a study of decline. In: Valentin Werner, Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez Gómez (eds.), Re-assessing the Present Perfect (Topics in English Linguistics, 91), 43–94. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter.

Aarts, Bas, Sean Wallis and Jill Bowie (2015) Profiling the English verb phrase over time: modal patterns. In: Irma Taavitsainen, Merja Kytö, Claudia Claridge and Jeremy Smith (eds.), Developments in English: Expanding Electronic Evidence (Studies in English Language), 48–76. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bowie, Jill, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts (2013a) The perfect in spoken British English. In: Bas Aarts, Joanne Close, Geoffrey Leech and Sean Wallis (eds.), The Verb Phrase in English: Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora (Studies in English Language), 318–352. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bowie, Jill, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts (2013b) Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English: mapping the impact of ‘genre’. In: Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Marta Carretero, Jorge Arús Hita and Johan van der Auwera (eds.), English Modality: Core, Periphery and Evidentiality (Topics in English Linguistics, 81), 57–94. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter.

Bowie, Jill, and Bas Aarts (2012) Change in the English infinitival perfect construction. In: Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, 200–210. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Bowie, Jill (2008) Proto-discourse and the emergence of compositionality. Interaction Studies 9(1), 18–33. (In special issue of journal edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton, and republished 2010 in Benjamins Current Topics series as The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs Compositionality. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: Benjamins.)

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