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Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2011.
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| Colección: | Topics in English Linguistics TiEL ;
50.2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; General introduction; 1. Dialect syntax; 2. Dialectology and corpus linguistics; 3. The Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects; 4. Aims and Outline; Notes; References; Possession and obligation; 1. Introduction; 2. Possession and obligation; 3. Grammaticalization; 4. HAD and GOT: Disambiguating past possession and past obligation; 5. Past possession and past obligation in the Midlands and the North; 6. Past possession and negation; 7. Past obligation and negation; 8. Present tense obligation and the trend towards monosemy; 9. Summary; References; Personal pronouns.
- 1. Introduction2. Two hierarchies; 3. Variation in number and person; 4. Variation in gender; 5. Pronoun exchange; 6. Case variation in prepositional phrases; 7. Qualified pronouns; 8. Synopsis and discussion; Appendix; Notes; References; Complement clauses; 1. Introduction; 2. Data and methods; 3. Embedded inversion; 4. The complementizer as; 5. For to clauses; 6. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.