Ditransitives in British English Dialects

Ditransitives in British English Dialects
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 9783110373585
ISBN-13 : 3110373580
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Book Synopsis Ditransitives in British English Dialects by : Johanna Gerwin

Download or read book Ditransitives in British English Dialects written by Johanna Gerwin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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