E-Book, Englisch, Band 50.3, 251 Seiten
Gerwin Ditransitives in British English Dialects
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-037358-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, Band 50.3, 251 Seiten
Reihe: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
ISBN: 978-3-11-037358-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
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.
Zielgruppe
People Interested in Regional Dialects, Students