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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gerwin, Johanna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2014.
Colección:Topics in English Linguistics TiEL.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Transitivity.
Generative grammar.
English language > Dialects.
Construction grammar.
Phrase structure grammar.
Verbe (Linguistique)
Transitivité (Linguistique)
Grammaire générative.
Anglais (Langue) > Dialectes.
Grammaire de construction.
Grammaire à structure de phrase.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Construction grammar
English language > Dialects
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general > Transitivity
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
Phrase structure grammar
Soziolinguistik
Mundart
Englisch
Ditransitives Verb
(Produktform)Hardback
(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft
Dialect Syntax; Dative Alternation; Regional/Register Variation; Language Change
(VLB-WN)1561: Hardcover, Softcover / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The ditransitive construction: previous studies
  • 3. Methodology: Defining the object(s) of study
  • 4. Spoken style, written style
  • ditransitives in speech and in the written standard
  • 5. Object patterns in dialects of English: a regional and historical analysis
  • 6. "Give it me!"
  • Pronominal ditransitives in English dialects
  • 7. Conclusion and outlook: ditransitives in British and American English dialects and beyond
  • Appendix
  • List of data bases
  • Bibliography
  • Permissions
  • Index.

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