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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812233903321

Autore

Henry Alison, professor

Titolo

Belfast English and standard English : dialect variation and parameter setting / / Alison Henry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

0-19-772130-3

1-280-52684-X

0-19-535949-6

1-4294-0014-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 148 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford studies in comparative syntax

Disciplina

427/.94167

Soggetti

English language - Dialects - Northern Ireland - Belfast

Belfast (Northern Ireland) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p142-146. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-146) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Subject-Verb Agreement; 3. Overt-Subject Imperatives; 4. For-To Infinitives; 5. Inversion in Embedded Questions; 6. Subject Contact Relatives; 7. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The author of this treatise analyzes various syntactic constructions in Belfast English, and compares them with their Standard English counterparts to gain insight into both English syntax and general syntactic theory.