American Speech, Settler Colonialism, and a View from a Place Currently Called Canada Available to Purchase

derek denis is assistant professor of linguistics in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, located within Dish with One Spoon territory and the treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit. His research examines language change and innovation from variationist and sociocultural linguistic perspectives, most recently focusing on the influence of immigrant and racialized youth in the emergence of a multiethnolect in Toronto. Email: .

alexandra d’arcy is professor of linguistics and director of the Sociolinguistics Research Lab at the University of Victoria, which stands on the traditional territory of the lək’əŋən peoples. She is a fourth-generation settler specializing in variationist sociolinguistics with a focus on morphosyntactic and discourse-pragmatic variation and change in what are largely settler colonial Englishes. Email: .