TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kortmann,Bernd
TI  - A comparative grammar of British English dialects: agreement, gender, relative clauses 
T2  - Topics in English linguistics
SN  - 3110182998
AV  - PE1721 .C66 2005
U1  - 427 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
KW  - English language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Relative clauses
KW  - Agreement
KW  - Gender
KW  - Languages
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; Bernd Kortmann --; The Freiburg English dialect project and corpus (FRED); Bernd Kortmann and Susanne Wagner --; Relative clauses in English dialects of the British Isles; Tanja Herrmann --; "Some do and some doesn't" : verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles; Lukas Pietsch --; Gender in English pronouns : Southwest England; Susanne Wagner
N2  - "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
ER  -