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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791969703321

Autore

Hernández Nuria

Titolo

A comparative grammar of British English dialects [[electronic resource] ] : modals, pronouns and complement clauses / / by Nuria Hernández, Daniela Kolbe, Monika Edith Schulz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : Walter de Gruyter, c2011

ISBN

3-11-024029-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Topics in English linguistics, , 1434-3452 ; ; 50.2

Altri autori (Persone)

KolbeDaniela

SchulzMonika

Disciplina

427/.941

Soggetti

English language - Dialects - Great Britain

English language - Great Britain - Grammar

English language - Modality

English language - Pronoun

English language - Clauses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface / Siebold, Nuria Hernández y / Kolbe-Hanna, Daniela / Schulz, Monika Edith -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- General introduction / Hernández, Nuria / Kolbe, Daniela / Schulz, Monika Edith -- Possession and obligation / Schulz, Monika Edith -- Personal pronouns / Hernández, Nuria -- Complement clauses / Kolbe, Daniela -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 pronouns (Nuria Hernández) and modals (Monika Edith Schulz). The volume is of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone working on the structure of spontaneous spoken English.