A comparative grammar of British English dialects

Auteurs

• Bernd Kortmann

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• Pages: 371 pages
• Temps de lecture: 13 heures

• Dictionnaires et manuels de langue
• Manuels
• Topics in English linguistics

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This volume presents qualitative and corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles, utilizing the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), which contains around 2.5 million words of predominantly British English dialects. It includes an overview of FRED and highlights the benefits of a functional-typological framework for examining dialect grammar. The first study by Tanja Herrmann systematically explores relativization strategies across Scotland, Northern Ireland, and four major English dialect areas, incorporating key typological issues such as the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy. Lukas Pietsch's research focuses on the Northern Subject Rule, a unique agreement phenomenon found in Northern England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, relying primarily on the Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech, along with FRED and Survey of English Dialects data. Susanne Wagner investigates pronominal gender, particularly the distinct semantic gender system in Southwest England dialects. This work will appeal to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and those interested in the structure of spontaneous spoken English.

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• Année de publication: 2005
• Reliure: (rigide)