A comparative grammar of British English dialects : agreement, gender, relative clauses /
by Bernd Kortmann [and others].
- x, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Topics in English linguistics ; 50.1 .
- Topics in English linguistics ; 50.1. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / The Freiburg English dialect project and corpus (FRED) / Relative clauses in English dialects of the British Isles / "Some do and some doesn't" : verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles / Gender in English pronouns : Southwest England / Bernd Kortmann -- Bernd Kortmann and Susanne Wagner -- Tanja Herrmann -- Lukas Pietsch -- Susanne Wagner.
"This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles written from a typological perspective. All studies make use of the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), a computerized corpus for predominantly British English dialects. Systematic comparative analyses of the following three domains of grammar form the backbone of the volume: relativization strategies in Scottish English, Northern Irish English, and in four major dialect areas in England (Hermann), the so-called Northern Subject Rule, a special agreement phenomenon known from Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland (Pietsch), and pronominal gender, with a special focus on the typologically rather unique semantic gender system in the dialects of Southwest England (Wagner)." "This volume will be of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone interested in the structure of spontaneous spoken English."--BOOK JACKET.
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English language--Dialects--Great Britain English language--Grammar.--Great Britain English language--Relative clauses English language--Agreement English language--Gender