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Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English (Hardcover)
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Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
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By comparing linguistic varieties that are quite similar overall,
linguists can often determine where and how grammatical systems
differ, and how they change over time. Micro-Syntactic Variation in
North American English provides a systematic look at minimal
differences in the syntax of varieties of English spoken in North
America. The book makes available for the first time a range of
data on unfamiliar constructions drawn from several regional and
social dialects, data whose distribution and grammatical properties
shed light on the varieties under examination and on the properties
of English syntax more generally. The nine contributions collected
in this volume fall under a number of overlapping topics: variation
in the expression of negation and modality (the "so don't I "
construction in eastern New England, negative auxiliary inversion
in declaratives in African-American and southern white English,
multiple modals in southern speech, the "needs washed "
construction in the Pittsburgh area); pronouns and reflexives
(transitive expletives in Appalachia, personal dative constructions
in the Southern/Mountain states, long-distance reflexives in the
Minnesota Iron Range); and the relation between linguistic
variation and language change (the rise of "drama SO " among
younger speakers, the difficulty in establishing which phenomena
cluster together and should be explained by a single point of
parametric variation). These chapters delve into the syntactic
analysis of individual phenomena, and the editors' introduction and
afterword contextualize the issues and explore their semantic,
pragmatic, and sociolinguistic implications.
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