Ditransitives in British English Dialects / / Johanna Gerwin.
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-exter...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
50.3 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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