| Description |
x, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Topics in English linguistics ; 50.1 |
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Topics in English linguistics ; 50.1
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| Contents |
Preface / Bernd Kortmann -- The Freiburg English dialect project and corpus (FRED) / Bernd Kortmann and Susanne Wagner -- Relative clauses in English dialects of the British Isles / Tanja Herrmann -- "Some do and some doesn't" : verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles / Lukas Pietsch -- Gender in English pronouns : Southwest England / Susanne Wagner |
| Summary |
"This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles written from a typological perspective. All studies make use of the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), a computerized corpus for predominantly British English dialects. Systematic comparative analyses of the following three domains of grammar form the backbone of the volume: relativization strategies in Scottish English, Northern Irish English, and in four major dialect areas in England (Hermann), the so-called Northern Subject Rule, a special agreement phenomenon known from Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland (Pietsch), and pronominal gender, with a special focus on the typologically rather unique semantic gender system in the dialects of Southwest England (Wagner)." |
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"This volume will be of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone interested in the structure of spontaneous spoken English."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Agreement.
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English language -- Dialects -- Great Britain.
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English language -- Gender.
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English language -- Relative clauses.
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English language -- Great Britain -- Grammar.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Languages.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93000156
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| Author |
Kortmann, Bernd, 1960-
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| LC no. |
2005001607 |
| ISBN |
3110182998 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
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