Ditransitives in British English Dialects
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A01=Johanna Gerwin
Author_Johanna Gerwin
Category=CFFD
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- ISBN 9783110352146
- Weight: 493g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2014
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Johanna Gerwin, Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.
