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Ditransitives in British English Dialects

By Johanna Gerwin

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2014
ISBN
3110352141, 9783110352146
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2931030 bytes)
Series
Topics in English Linguistics 50.3
Pages
237\251
Time added
2016-03-03 05:03:25
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Description

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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