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
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 Languages. Cambridge. 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
