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The distribution of pronoun case forms in English /

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional di...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quinn, Heidi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2005.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 82.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CASE SYSTEM; 2. FORMAL APPROACHES TO CASE AND THE THREE CASE CONSTRAINTS; 3. CASE AND THE WEAK/STRONG DISTINCTION IN THE ENGLISH PRONOUN SYSTEM; 4. THE EMPIRICAL SURVEY; 5. THE SURVEY RESULTS; 6. RELATIVE POSITIONAL CODING AND THE INVARIANT STRONG FORM CONSTRAINTS; 7. MODELLING THE INTERACTION OF THE CONSTRAINTS; 8. THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL PRONOUN FORMS IN OTHER STRONG PRONOUN CONTEXTS.