Relative Constructions in European Non-Standard Varieties / / Adriano Murelli.

Cross-linguistic studies on relative constructions in European languages are often centred on standard varieties as described in reference grammars. This volume breaks with the tradition in that it investigates relative constructions in non-standard varieties from a multidisciplinary perspective and...

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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, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 50
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Physical Description:1 online resource (477 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Theoretical and methodological premises
  • Chapter 1. Theoretical background
  • Chapter 2. Data sources
  • Chapter 3. Data classification
  • Part 2. An areal study of non-standard relative constructions in European languages
  • Chapter 4. Typological issues
  • Chapter 5. Sociolinguistic issues
  • Chapter 6. Diachronic issues
  • Part 3. Corpus-based language-specific case studies
  • Chapter 7. Presentative constructions in German discussion forums
  • Chapter 8. Relative constructions in a spoken Russian corpus
  • Summary and outlook
  • Appendix A – The language sample
  • Appendix B – The questionnaires
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index of languages
  • Index of authors
  • Index of subjects