Ditransitives in British English Dialects 9783110352320, 9783110352146

Ditransitives in British English Dialects 9783110352320, 9783110352146

What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alte

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The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts 2020055299, 9780367856113, 9781003017431, 9781032008929

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A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects: Volume 1 Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses 9783110197518, 9783110182996

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in

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A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects: Volume 2 Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses 9783110240290, 9783110240283

This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects. The book again off

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Survey of English Dialects, East Midlands 0907839533, 9780907839538

East Midlands of the SED Survey of English Dialects

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Variable Grammars: Verbal Agreement in Northern Dialects of English (Linguistische Arbeiten) [1 ed.] 3484304960, 9783484304963

One of the conspicuous characteristics of the northern dialects of Britain and Ireland is variation in verbal agreement,

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English Imaginaries: Six Studies in Anglo-British Modernity 9780853158684, 0853158681

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The Diachrony of Ditransitives 9783110701371, 9783110701272

While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs

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Wallace’s Dialects 9781501348471, 9781501348501, 9781501348495

Mary Shapiro explores the use of regional and ethnic dialects in the works of David Foster Wallace, not just as a device

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The syntax of ditransitives: evidence from clitics 3110170280

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