Ditransitives in British English Dialects
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
ISBN-10
3110352141
ISBN-13
9783110352146
Publisher
De Gruyter
Imprint
De Gruyter Mouton
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 26th, 2014
Print length
251 Pages
Weight
536 grams
Product Classification:
Dialect, slang & jargonDialect, slang and jargon
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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.
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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