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Ditransitives in British English Dialects / Johanna Gerwin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 50.3Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (237 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110352146
  • 9783110373585
  • 9783110352320
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 23
LOC classification:
  • P163.5 .G47 2014
  • P281 .G478 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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