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Cambridge Language Sciences

Interdisciplinary Research Centre
 

Research

My main research interests are in language variation and change and in dialectology with a specific focus on language contact, language death and language revitalization. It has involved languages such as Welsh, Breton and – currently - the Norman dialects of the Channel Islands and the Norman mainland. I am a founder of the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group and the Cambridge Conferences in Language Endangerment and am a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and of the International Centre for Language Revitalisation. I was awarded the 2016 Vice-Chancellor's Impact Award for the School of Arts and Humanities for my work in support of the revitalization of the Norman of the Channel Islands.

Publications

Key publications: 

Jones, M.C. (2022) A Glossary of the Norman Language in the Channel Islands. Guernsey: Blue Ormer.

Jones, M.C. (2018)  "Does Language Loss Follow a Principled Structural Path? Evidence from Jersey Norman French" Journal of French Language Studies 28/3 pp. 399-429

Jones, M.C. and D. Mooney (eds) (2017) Orthography Development for Endangered Languages. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press

Jones, M.C. (2015) “Auregnais: Insular Norman's invisible relative” Transactions of the Philological Society 113/3, pp. 349-362

Jones, M.C. (2015) Policy and Planning for Endangered LanguagesCambridge. Cambridge University Press 

Jones, M.C. (2015) Variation and Change in Mainland and Insular Norman: A Study of Superstrate Influence. Leiden, Brill.

Jones, M.C. (ed) (2015) Endangered Languages and New Technologies. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Jones, M.C. and S. Ogilvie (eds) (2013). Keeping Languages Alive. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Jones, M.C. & D.C. Hornsby (eds) (2013) Language and Social Structure in Urban France Oxford: Legenda

Jones, M.C. (2012) “Variation and Change in Sark Norman French”. Transactions of the Philological Society 110/2, pp. 149-170

Jones, M.C. (2012) “Liaison Patterns and Usage in Jersey Norman French”. Probus 24/2, pp.197-232

Jones, M.C. (2010) “Comment déterminer la syntaxe de l’oral: une étude de cas des îles anglo-normandes”. In M. Drescher and I. Neumann-Holzschuh (eds) La syntaxe de l’oral dans les variétés non-hexagonales du français. (Stauffenburg: Tubingen), pp. 137-148

 Jones, M.C. (2010) “Le Changement linguistique à Guernesey: s’agit-il d’une convergence syntaxique?”. LINX 57, pp. 91-100 (2007)  Special edition: F. Gadet & E. Guérin (eds), Études de syntaxe: français parlé, français hors de France, créoles

Jones, M.C. (2010) “Channel Island English”. In D. Schreier P. Trudgill, E.W. Schneider and J.P. Williams (eds) The Lesser-Known Varieties of English (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp.35-56

Jones, M.C. and T. Bulot (eds) (2009) Les Langues Normandes: Pluralité, normes, représentations. Paris, L'Harmattan

Jones, M.C. (2009) “Identity Planning in an Obsolescent Variety: The Case of Jersey Norman French”. Anthropological Linguistics 50/3-4, pp. 1-17

Jones, M.C. (2008). The Guernsey Norman French Translations of Thomas Martin. Leuven, Peeters

Gadet, F. & M.C. Jones (2008) “Variation, Contact and Convergence in French Spoken Outside France.” Journal of Language Contact 2, pp. 238-248 http://www.jlc-journal.org/

Jones, M.C.  (2007) “Channel Island French.” In D. Britain (ed.), Language in the British Isles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 358-367

Jones, M.C. and I. Singh (2005). Exploring Language Change. London, Routledge

Jones, M.C. (2005) “Some Structural and Social Correlates of Single Word  Intrasentential Codeswitching in Jersey Norman French.” Journal of French Language Studies15/1, pp. 1-23

Jones, M.C. (2005) “Transfer and Changing Linguistic Norms in Jersey Norman French.” Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 8/2, pp. 159-175

Jones, M.C. (2003) Jèrriais:  Jersey's Native Tongue Jersey: Le Don Balleine

Jones, M.C. and E. Esch (eds) (2002) Language Change: The interplay of internal, external and extra-linguistic factors. Berlin/New York, Mouton de Gruyter

Jones, M.C. (2001). Jersey Norman French: A linguistic study of an obsolescent dialect. Oxford, Blackwell

Jones, M.C.  (2000) “The Subjunctive in Guernsey Norman French.” Journal of French Language Studies 10/2, pp. 177-203

Jones, M.C. (2000) “Swimming Against the Tide: Language Planning on Jersey.” Language Problems and Language Planning 24/2, pp. 167-196

Jones, M.C. (2000) “Ambiguity and Unpredictability: Linguistic Change in Modern Jèrriais.” Verbum 22/2, pp. 203-222

Jones, M.C. (1998) Language Obsolescence and Revitalization. Oxford, Oxford University Press

Publications (from Symplectic)

Journal articles

2023

  • Jones, MC., 2023. The rolling snowball: Lone English-origin lexical items in Guernésiais Journal of French Language Studies,
    Doi: 10.1017/S0959269523000261
  • 2022 (Accepted for publication)

  • Jones, M., 2022 (Accepted for publication). YOU SAY ‘HUIPTANTE’ AND I SAY ‘QUATRE-VÎNGT’: INVESTIGATING LINGUISTIC VARIATION IN JÈRRIAIS French Studies: a quarterly review,
  • 2018

  • Jones, MC., 2018. Does language loss follow a principled structural path? Evidence from Jersey Norman French Journal of French Language Studies, v. 28
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269518000042
  • 2015

  • Jones, MC., 2015. Auregnais: Insular Norman's Invisible Relative Transactions of the Philological Society, v. 113
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12060
  • 2012 (No publication date)

  • Jones, MC., 2012 (No publication date). Liaison Patterns and Usage in Jersey Norman French Probus: international journal of Latin and Romance linguistics, v. 24
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2012-0009
  • 2012

  • Jones, MC., 2012. Variation and change in Sark Norman French Transactions of the Philological Society, v. 110
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968X.2012.01288.x
  • 2011

  • Jones, MC., 2011. La Littérature récente (après 1950) des Îles Anglo-Normandes Bien dire et Bien aprandre: Revue de Médiévistique, v. 28
  • Jones, MC., 2011. Etat présent: Diatopic variation and the study of regional French French Studies, v. 65
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knr077
  • 2010

  • Jones, MC., 2010. Le changement linguistique à Guernesey : s’agit-il d’une convergence syntaxique ? Linx, v. 57
  • 2008

  • Jones, MC., 2008. Identity Planning in an Obsolescent Variety: The Case of Jersey Norman French Anthropological Linguistics, v. 50
  • Gadet, F. and Jones, MC., 2008. Variation, Contact and Convergence in French Spoken Outside France. Journal of Language Contact: evolution of languages, contact and discourse, v. 2
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/000000008792525372
  • Jones, MC., 2008. Des Parlers d’oïl en territoire britannique : Les Iles Anglo-Normandes. Langues et Cité, v. 12
  • 2007

  • Jones, MC., 2007. The Martin Manuscript: An Unexplored Archive of Guernsey Norman French French Studies, v. 61
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knm/124
  • 2006

  • Jones, MC. and Hornsby, DC., 2006. Blue Sky Thinking? Léon Bollack and 'La langue française en 2003' Language Problems and Language Planning, v. 30
  • 2005

  • Jones, MC., 2005. Transfer and Changing Linguistic Norms in Jersey Norman French Bilingualism-Language and Cognition, v. 8
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728905002154
  • Jones, MC., 2005. Some Structural and Social Correlates of Single Word Intrasentential Codeswitching in Jersey Norman French Journal of French Language Studies, v. 15
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269505001894
  • 2000

  • Jones, MC., 2000. The Subjunctive in Guernsey Norman French Journal of French Language Studies, v. 10
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500000144
  • Jones, MC., 2000. The Subjunctive in Guernsey Norman French Journal of French Language Studies, v. 10
  • Jones, MC., 2000. Swimming Against the Tide: Language Planning on Jersey Language Problems and Language Planning, v. 24
  • Jones, MC., 2000. Ambiguity and Unpredictability: Linguistic Change in Modern Jèrriais Verbum: analecta neolatina, v. 22
  • 1999

  • Jones, MC., 1999. Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Modern Breton Plurilinguismes, v. 17
  • 1998 (Accepted for publication)

  • Jones, MC., 1998 (Accepted for publication). Language Shift in Brittany: The importance of local surveys for the study of Linguistic Obsolescence Journal of Celtic Linguistics, v. 5
  • 1998

  • Jones, MC., 1998. Death of a Language, Birth of an Identity: Brittany and the Bretons Language Problems and Language Planning, v. 22
  • 1996

  • Jones, MC., 1996. The role of the speaker in language obsolescence: the case of Breton in Plougastel-Daoulas, Brittany Journal of French Language Studies, v. 6
  • Jones, MC., 1996. Le parler des jeunes: nouvelle norme pour le siècle prochain? La Bretagne Linguistique, v. 10
  • 1995

  • Jones, MC., 1995. At What Price Language Maintenance?: Standardization in Modern Breton French Studies, v. 49
  • Book chapters

    2020

  • Jones, MC., 2020. Mainland and Insular Norman: pronoun sharing and pronoun sparing
  • 2017

  • Jones, MC. and Mooney, D., 2017. Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages (Introduction)
  • Jones, MC., 2017. Norman forms – French Norms: Diaphasic variation and language contact
  • Jones, MC., 2017. Langue et espace socio-langagiers à Guernesey
  • Jones, MC. and Mooney, D., 2017. Creating orthographies for endangered languages
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/9781316562949.001
  • 2015

  • Jones, MC., 2015. Endangered Languages and New Technologies Preface
  • Jones, MC., 2015. Endangered Languages and New Technologies (Preface)
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107279063.001
  • Jones, MC., 2015. Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages (Preface)
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316162880.001
  • 2013 (No publication date)

  • Jones, MC., Parry, MM. and Williams, GL., 2013 (No publication date). Sociolinguistic Variation in the Romance Languages
  • Jones, MC., Parry, MM. and Williams, GL., 2013 (No publication date). Sociolinguistic Variation
  • 2013

  • Jones, MC. and Hornsby, D., 2013. Language and Social Structure in Urban France INTRODUCTION
  • Jones, MC. and Pountain, CJ., 2013. Romance outside the Romània
  • Jones, MC. and Hornsby, DC., 2013. Exception française? Levelling, exclusion, and urban social structure in France.
  • 2012 (No publication date)

  • Jones, MC., 2012 (No publication date). Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: English/French Convergence on Guernsey
  • Jones, MC., 2012 (No publication date). The Heart of the Artichoke: Dialect Death in Contemporary Wales
  • 2011

  • Jones, MC., 2011. Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: Convergence on the Island of Guernsey
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892598.143
  • Jones, MC. and Esch, E., 2011. Language change: The interplay of internal, external and extra-linguistic factors
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892598
  • 2010

  • Jones, MC., 2010. Channel Island English.
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511676529
  • Jones, MC., 2010. Comment déterminer la syntaxe de l’oral?: une étude de cas des îles anglo-normandes.
  • Jones, MC., 2010. Channel island English
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511676529.004
  • 2009

  • Bulot, T. and Jones, MC., 2009. Une ou des langues normandes? Politique linguistique et territorialisation.
  • Jones, MC., 2009. La Planification identitaire au sein du normand insulaire.
  • 2008

  • Jones, MC., 2008. Le Changement linguistique à Guernesey: s’agit-il d’une convergence syntaxique?
  • Jones, MC. and Price, G., 2008. Channel Islands French.
  • 2007

  • Jones, MC., 2007. The French Language and Questions of Identity (Introduction)
  • Jones, MC., 2007. Channel Island French
  • 2006

  • Jones, MC., 2006. Channel Islands: Language Situation
  • Jones, MC., 2006. Languages of the World: Jèrriais
  • 2002

  • Jones, MC., 2002. Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: Convergence on the Island of Guernsey
  • 1994

  • Jones, MC., 1994. A Tale of Two Dialects: Standardization in Modern Spoken Welsh
  • Books

    2017

  • Jones, MC. and Mooney, D., 2017. Creating orthographies for endangered languages
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/9781316562949
  • Jones, MC. and Hornsby, D., 2017. Introduction
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315092058
  • 2015

  • Jones, MC., 2015. Policy and Planning for Endangered languages
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316162880
  • Jones, MC., 2015. Variation and Change in Mainland and Insular Norman
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/9789004257139
  • Jones, MC., 2015. Endangered Languages and New Technologies
  • 2013

  • Jones, MC. and Ogilvie, S., 2013. Keeping Languages Alive
  • Jones, MC. and Hornsby, DC., 2013. Language and Social Structure in Urban France
  • 2011

  • Farrar, K. and Jones, MC., 2011. Introduction
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892598.1
  • 2009

  • Jones, MC. and Bulot, T., 2009. Sociolinguistique de la langue normande
  • 2008

  • Jones, MC., 2008. The Guernsey Norman French translations of Thomas Martin
  • 2007

  • Jones, MC. and Ayres-Bennett, W., 2007. The French Language and Questions of Identity
  • 2005

  • Jones, MC. and Singh, I., 2005. Exploring Language Change
  • 2003

  • Jones, MC., 2003. Jèrriais: Jersey's Native Tongue
  • 2002

  • Jones, MC., 2002. Language Change: The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-Linguistic Factors
  • 2001

  • Jones, MC., 2001. Jersey Norman French: A Linguistic Study of an Obsolescent Dialect
  • 1998

  • Jones, MC., 1998. La langue bretonne aujourd 'hui à Plougastel-Daoulas
  • Jones, MC., 1998. Language Obsolescence and Revitalization
  • Other publications

    2009

  • Jones, MC., 2009. Review of D.C. Hornsby 'Redefining Regional French: Koineization and Dialect Levelling in Northern France' J FR LANG STUD, v. 19
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269509990317
  • Jones, MC. and Price, G., 2009. French Language. Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, v. 69
  • 2008

  • Jones, MC. and Price, G., 2008. French Language. Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, v. 68
  • 2007

  • Jones, MC. and Price, G., 2007. French Studies: Language and Linguistics The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, v. 69
  • Jones, MC., 2007. Review of 'A student grammar of French' FR STUD, v. 61
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knm032
  • 2006

  • Jones, MC., 2006. Review of 'The Middle French period: evolution of the language' MOD LANG REV, v. 101
  • Jones, MC. and Price, G., 2006. French Studies: Language The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, v. 68
  • Jones, MC., 2006. Review of 'Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages' Journal of Sociolinguistics, v. 10
  • 2005

  • Jones, MC. and Price, G., 2005. French Studies: Language The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, v. 67
  • Jones, MC., 2005. Review of 'Ludovic Masse: from the Catalan land to the Universe. Documents of the Perpignan seminar dedicated to the 100th anniversary from the birth of Ludovic Masse 12 February 2000' FR STUD, v. 59
  • 1999

  • Jones, MC., 1999. Unn Røyneland (ed.). 1997. Language contact and language conflict International Journal of Applied Linguistics (United Kingdom), v. 9
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1473-4192.1999.tb00167.x
  • 1994

  • JONES, M., 1994. Review of A.R.Lodge, 'French: From Dialect to Standard' FR STUD, v. 48