Sali Tagliamonte
University College, 15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
Campus: St. George
Sali Tagliamonte has been a professor at the University of Toronto since 2001, where she currently serves as Chair of the Department of Linguistics. Tagliamonte is also an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. She currently holds the title of Canada Research Chair in Language Variation and Change.
Sali Tagliamonte held a number of professional positions before joining the faculty of the University of Toronto. From 1995 to 2002 she held the position of adjunct professor at the Linguistics Department at University of Ottawa. She was a lecturer at the University of York on two occasions, in 1995 and 2000 and held a position of Visiting Assistant Professor there in 2001 until she became a professor at the University of Toronto.
Sali Tagliamonte's widely-cited research has focused on varieties of English. In particular, her work has focused on Ontario English, including projects related to speech communities looking at various communities in Toronto, North Bay, South Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, Haliburton, Almonte, Wilno, Kapuskasing and Barry's Bay. She also collaborated with Jennifer Smith (sociolinguist) FRSE on dialects in Scotland and North America. Tagliamonte has also worked on internet and youth language. She is a co-creator of a variable rule program, Goldvarb.
Education
- PhD, University of Ottawa
- MA, University of Ottawa
- Hons. BA, York University
Research Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Language variation and change
Publications
- A Cool Comparison: Adjectives of Positive Evaluation in Toronto, Canada and York, England (SAGE Publications : 2020)
- The bike, the back, and the boyfriend: Confronting the "definite article conspiracy" in Canadian and British English (John Benjamins Publishing Company : 2020)
- Up north there: Discourse-pragmatic deixis in Northern Ontario (Elsevier : 2020)
- This here town: evidence for the development of the English determiner system from a vernacular demonstrative construction in York English (Cambridge University Press : 2019)
- Peaks and arrowheads of vernacular reorganization (Cambridge University Press : 2019)
- Golly, Gosh, and Oh My God! What North American Dialects can Tell Us about Swear Words (Duke University Press : 2019)
- Supper or dinner? Sociolinguistic variation in the meals of the day (John Benjamins Publishing Company : 2019)
- The changing future: Competition, specialization, and reorganization in the contemporary English future temporal reference system (Cambridge University Press : 2018)