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Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses (Hardcover)
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Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses (Hardcover)
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
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This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative
studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British
Isles. All studies draw heavily on the Freiburg English Dialect
Corpus (FRED), a computerized corpus for predominantly British
English dialects comprising some 2.5 million words. Besides an
account of FRED and the advantages which a functional-typological
framework offers for the study of dialect grammar, the volume
includes the following three substantial studies. Tanja Herrmann's
study is the first systematic cross-regional study of
relativization strategies for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and four
major dialect areas in England. In her research design Hermann has
included a number of issues crucial in typological research on
relative clauses, above all the Noun Phrase Accessibility
Hierarchy. Lukas Pietsch investigates the so-called Northern
Subject Rule, a special agreement phenomenon known from Northern
England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. His study is primarily
based on the Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech, but
also on the FRED and SED data (Survey of English Dialects) for the
North of England. Susanne Wagner is concerned with the phenomenon
of pronominal gender, focussing especially on the typologically
rather unique semantic gender system in the dialects of Southwest
England. This volume will be of interest to dialectologists,
sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and
anyone interested in the structure of spontaneous spoken English.
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