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Ditransitives in British English Dialects.
What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this 'dative alternation' as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, lang...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2014.
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| Colección: | Topics in English Linguistics TiEL.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this 'dative alternation' as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110352320 311035232X 9783110373585 3110373580 |