A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects. / Volume 1, : Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses / / Lukas Pietsch, Susanne Wagner, Bernd Kortmann, Tanja Herrmann.

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles. All studies draw heavily on the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), a computerized corpus for predominantly British English dialects comprising some 2.5 mil...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2005
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 50.1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (371 p.) :; Numerous tab. and maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • The Freiburg English Dialect Project and Corpus
  • (FRED)
  • Relative clauses in English dialects of the British
  • Isles
  • “Some do and some doesn’t”: Verbal concord
  • variation in the north of the British Isles
  • Gender in English pronouns: Southwest
  • England
  • Backmatter