Sali Tagliamonte

Sali A. Tagliamonte is a Canadian linguist. She works in the field of language variation and change. She has been a professor at the University of Toronto since 2001. Her recent project focuses on dialects of Ontario English, looking at various communities e.g., Toronto, North Bay, South Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, Haliburton, Almonte, Wilno and Barry's Bay.^[1]

Tagliamonte received a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from York University in 1981, and a Master of Arts in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1991 in Linguistics from University of Ottawa. Her graduate thesis, supervised by Shana Poplack, looked a past temporal reference structures in Samaná English. She held an adjunct professor position at the Linguistics Department at University of Ottawa from 1995-2002. She was a lecturer at the University of York on two occasions, in 1995 and 2000 and held a position of a visiting professor there in 2001 until she became a professor at the University of Toronto.

Tagliamonte was a Killam Research Fellow from 2013-2015 ^[2] and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2013.^[3] She was a media expert for the Linguistic Society of America in 2013. She was an associate editor of Language from 2007-2010.^[4] She is a co-creator of a variable rule program, Goldvarb.

Selected Publications

• Shana Poplack and Sali A. Tagliamonte. (1989) There’s no tense like the present: Verbal-s inflection in early Black English. Language Variation and Change 1.1: 47-84.
• Sali A. Tagliamonte. (1998) Was/were variation across the generations: View from the city of York. Language Variation and Change. 10:2: 153-191.
• Sali A. Tagliamonte and Rachel Hudson. (1999). Be like et al. beyond America: The quotative system in British and Canadian youth. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 3:2: 147-172.
• Sali A. Tagliamonte and Shana Poplack. (2001) African American English in the diaspora: Tense and aspect. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Sali A. Tagliamonte. (2001) Come/came variation in English dialects. American Speech. 76.1: 42-61.
• Sali A. Tagliamonte and Chris Roberts. (2005) So weird; so cool; so innovative: The use of intensifiers in the television series Friends. American Speech. 80.3: 280-300
• Sali A. Tagliamonte. (2006) Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Sali A. Tagliamonte. (2012) Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
• Sali A. Tagliamonte. (2013) Roots of English: Exploring the history of dialects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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