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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| 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, , [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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