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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tübingen :
Niemeyer,
2005.
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Colección: | Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;
496. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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