Variable Grammars: Verbal Agreement in Northern Dialects of English

Lukas Pietsch

Published by Max Niemeyer Verlag 2005

Variable Grammars: Verbal Agreement in Northern Dialects of English

Lukas Pietsch

Volume 496 in the series Linguistische Arbeiten

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110944556

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About this book

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.

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"Pietsch has not only provided a milestone in his genuinely original contribution to the scholarly Fachliteratur; he is also exemplary in the thoroughness with which he has conducted his research at every level and also in the easefulness with which he has conceived and presented it. Difficult, complex ideas are conveyed with commendable cogency and clarity. Innovation in cartographic design provides effective interpretations. Pietsch shorws that he is as much at home with reading his data, marshalling frequencies into analysed data subsets, and conducting statistical tests, as he is with dealing with linguistic history and evolution, interpreting variation and change and engaging trenchantly with theory. This is, without doubt, a mouldbreaking study of its subject and a model for others to follow."
John M. Kirk in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik Heft 2 (2010)

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i-iv Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
List of maps. List of figures. List of tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
List of abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Lukas Pietsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Theoretical accounts of verbal agreement variation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3. History and origins of the NSR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. Verbal agreement in the SED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5. Verbal agreement in the NITCS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6. Verbal agreement in FRED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
7. Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Appendixes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 217
Illustrations
- Other: Ill.
Keywords: Mundart; Sprachvariante; Verb; Syntaktische Kongruenz; Englisch

eBook

Published: December 22, 2011
ISBN: 9783110944556

Hardcover

Published: January 1, 2005
ISBN: 9783484304963