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9783110240283

A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects

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    9783110240283

  • ISBN10:

    3110240289

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-12-30
  • Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

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This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects. The book again offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles. The three parts investigate complement clauses (Daniela Kolbe), personal pronouns (Nuria Hernández) and modals (Monika Edith Schulz). The volume is of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone working on the structure of spontaneous spoken English.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. v
Acknowledgementsp. vi
General introductionp. 1
Dialect syntaxp. 1
Dialectology and corpus linguisticsp. 3
The Freiburg Corpus of English Dialectsp. 5
Aims and Outlinep. 9
Notesp. 12
Referencesp. 13
Possession and obligationp. 19
Introductionp. 19
Possession and obligationp. 22
Grammaticalizationp. 23
had and got: Disambiguating past possession and past obligationp. 25
Past possession and past obligation in the Midlands and the Northp. 38
Past possession and negationp. 42
Past obligation and negationp. 43
Present tense obligation and the trend towards monosemyp. 45
Summaryp. 47
Referencesp. 49
Personal pronounsp. 53
Introductionp. 53
Two hierarchiesp. 62
Variation in number and personp. 65
Variation in genderp. 73
Pronoun exchangep. 94
Case variation in prepositional phrasesp. 126
Qualified pronounsp. 139
Synopsis and discussionp. 156
Appendixp. 169
Notesp. 174
Referencesp. 181
Complement clausesp. 193
Introductionp. 193
Data and methodsp. 201
Embedded inversionp. 221
The complementizer asp. 244
For to clausesp. 255
Conclusionp. 288
Appendixp. 293
Notesp. 299
Referencesp. 303
Indexp. 315
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