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Variable grammars : verbal agreement in northern dialects of English /

The northern dialects of Britain and Ireland have verbal agreement patterns that differ radically from those of Standard English: the children is singing vs. they are singing vs. they sing and dances. This so-called 'Northern Subject Rule' (agreement with adjacent personal pronoun subjects...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pietsch, Lukas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2005.
Colección:Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 496.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • List of maps. List of figures. List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments / Pietsch, Lukas
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical accounts of verbal agreement variation
  • 3. History and origins of the NSR
  • 4. Verbal agreement in the SED
  • 5. Verbal agreement in the NITCS
  • 6. Verbal agreement in FRED
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Appendixes
  • Index