Jack Chambers (linguist)

For the Canadian artist and filmmaker, see Jack Chambers.

J. K. (Jack) Chambers (born 12 July 1938 in Grimsby, Ontario) is a Canadian linguist, and a well-known expert on language variation and change, who pioneered research on Canadian English and coined the term "Canadian raising." He has been a professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto since receiving his a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 1970. He has also been a visiting professor at many universities worldwide, including Hong Kong University, University of Szeged, Hungary, Canterbury University in New Zealand, the University of Reading and the University of York in the UK.

Chambers has also written extensively on jazz, including such figures as Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.

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His works include:

1975 Canadian English: Origins and Structures
1979 The Languages of Canada
1983 Milestones I: The Music and Times of Miles Davis to l960
1985 Milestones II: The Music and Times of Miles Davis since l960
1991 Dialects of English: Studies in Grammatical Variation (with Peter Trudgill)
1998 Dialects and Accents (with David Britain)
1998 Dialectology (with Peter Trudgill)
2002 The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (with Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes)
2003 Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance