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Ditransitives in British English Dialects.
Title:
Ditransitives in British English Dialects.
Author:
Gerwin, Johanna.
ISBN:
9783110352320
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Series:
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; v.50.3

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Speaker choice, ditransitives, and the sociolinguistic variable -- 1.2 The scope of ditransitives -- 1.3 The corpora -- 1.3.1 Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED) -- 1.3.2 BNCweb - The online edition of the British National Corpus (Lancaster platform) -- 1.3.3 Written data: LOB and F-LOB -- 1.4 Brief overview of the chapters -- 2 The ditransitive construction: previous studies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Language-internal constraints on the dative alternation pertaining to the verb -- 2.2.1 Semantic considerations -- 2.2.2 Phonological and morphological constraints -- 2.3 Language-internal constraints on the dative alternation pertaining to the objects -- 2.3.1 Semantic considerations -- 2.3.2 Pragmatic constraints -- 2.4 Idiomatic expressions as a starting point: is there an alternation? -- 2.5 Overview of all the language-internal constraints on the dative alternation -- 2.6 Language-external constraints on the dative alternation - some studies -- 2.6.1 Gradient language-internal constraints as characterisations of varieties -- 2.6.2 Dialectological descriptions of ditransitive phenomena -- 2.6.3 Two dialect corpus studies -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 Methodology: Defining the object(s) of study -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Finding ditransitive verbs -- 3.3 Finding double objects -- 3.3.1 The object category Pro -- 3.3.2 The object category NP -- 3.3.3 Intervening material -- 3.4 Idiomatic expressions -- 3.5 The regional classification -- 3.6 Summary -- 4 Spoken style, written style - ditransitives in speech and in the written standard -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The spoken data: FRED and the BNCreg -- 4.2.1 Objects and object patterns in FRED and the BNCreg -- 4.2.2 Ditransitive verbs in FRED and the BNCreg.

4.2.3 Diachronic analysis of the verb occurrence in FRED and the BNCreg -- 4.2.4 The verb give -- 4.3 The written data: LOB and F-LOB -- 4.3.1 Objects and object patterns in LOB and F-LOB -- 4.3.2 Ditransitive verbs in LOB and F-LOB -- 4.4 Comparison of the written and spoken data sets -- 4.4.1 Comparison of the object SETs -- 4.4.2 Comparison of the verb encodings -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Object patterns in dialects of English: a regional and historical analysis -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Historical development of the object patterns -- 5.3 The most frequent pattern: SET A (She gave her a book) and its alternatives -- 5.4 Second in frequency: SET D (She gave the woman a book) and its alternatives -- 5.5 Marginal but instructive: SET C (She gave the woman it) and alternatives -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6 "Give it me!" - Pronominal ditransitives in English dialects -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The regional dimension -- 6.3 The diachronic dimension -- 6.4 Other determining factors -- 6.4.1 Imperative versus declarative -- 6.4.2 Pronouns -- 6.4.3 Verb types -- 6.5 Summary -- 7 Conclusion and outlook: ditransitives in British and American English dialects and beyond -- 7.1 Recap: ditransitives in British English dialects -- 7.2 Ditransitives in American English dialects -- 7.3 Ditransitives in the languages of the world -- Appendix -- A: Levin's (1993) classes of verbs occurring only in PREP -- B: Levin's (1993) classes of verbs occurring only in DOC -- C: List of nouns taking sentential complements in FRED and the BNCreg -- D: Light verb collocations with give in FRED and the BNCreg -- List of data bases -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Index.
Abstract:
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
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