TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerwin,Johanna
TI  - Ditransitives in British English Dialects
T2  - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
SN  - 9783110352146
AV  - P163.5 .G47 2014
U1  - 415 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Construction grammar
KW  - English language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Generative grammar
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Transitivity
KW  - Verb
KW  - Phrase structure grammar
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Dative Alternation
KW  - Dialect Syntax
KW  - Language Change
KW  - Regional/Register Variation
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110352320
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110352320
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110352320/original
ER  -