Variable Grammars: Verbal Agreement in Northern Dialects of English /

Variable Grammars: Verbal Agreement in Northern Dialects of English / / Lukas Pietsch.

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One of the conspicuous characteristics of the northern dialects of Britain and Ireland is variation in verbal agreement, especially the use of plural verbal -s. Once a mark of a consistent, categorical grammatical system in the traditional dialects of the area, today verbal -s appears in highly comp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
VerfasserIn:
Pietsch, Lukas,
MitwirkendeR:
Pietsch, Lukas,
Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2011]
©2005
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 496
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Physical Description:1 online resource (217 p.) :; Ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • Contents
  • List of maps. List of figures. List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical accounts of verbal agreement variation
  • 3. History and origins of the NSR
  • 4. Verbal agreement in the SED
  • 5. Verbal agreement in the NITCS
  • 6. Verbal agreement in FRED
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Appendixes
  • Index

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