Variable Grammars: Verbal Agreement in Northern Dialects of English
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A01=Lukas Pietsch
Author_Lukas Pietsch
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- ISBN 9783484304963
- Weight: 503g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2005
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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One of the conspicuous characteristics of the northern dialects of Britain and Ireland is variation in verbal agreement, especially the use of plural verbal -s. Once a mark of a consistent, categorical grammatical system in the traditional dialects of the area, today verbal -s appears in highly complex, hybrid variation patterns in the modern vernaculars. This corpus-based study explores continuities and discontinuities between the dialects involved, and discusses the implications of such hybrid variable sytems for a usage-based theory of grammatical competence.
