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Morphology english dialects

By Lieselotte Anderwald

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0521884977, 9780521884976, 9780511517938
LCC
PE1736 .A53 2009
Open Library ID
OL23080089M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3112387 bytes)
Series
Studies in English Language
Edition
1
Pages
241\241
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34
Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Диалекты и вар

Description

Where do dialects differ from Standard English, and why are they so remarkably resilient? This new study argues that commonly used verbs that deviate from Standard English for the most part have a long pedigree. Analysing the language use of over 120 dialect speakers, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not only are speakers justifi ed historically in using these verbs, systematically these non- standard forms actually make more sense. By constituting a simpler system, they are generally more economical than their Standard English counterparts. Drawing on data collected from the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), this innovative and engaging study comes directly from the forefront of this fi eld, and will be of great interest to students and researchers of English language and linguistics, morphology and syntax.

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