Ditransitives in British English dialects / / Johanna Gerwin
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| Autore: |
Gerwin Johanna
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| Titolo: |
Ditransitives in British English dialects / / Johanna Gerwin
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| Pubblicazione: | Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 415 |
| Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb |
| Grammar, Comparative and general - Transitivity | |
| Generative grammar | |
| English language - Dialects | |
| Construction grammar | |
| Phrase structure grammar | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | (Produktform)Hardback |
| (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft | |
| Dialect Syntax; Dative Alternation; Regional/Register Variation; Language Change | |
| (VLB-WN)1561: Hardcover, Softcover / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Classificazione: | HF 297 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ditransitives in British English dialects |
| ISBN: | 3-11-037358-0 |
| 3-11-035232-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787195303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Topics in English linguistics ; ; Volume 50.3.