Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects - A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry

An exploration of grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Data and methods; 3. The feature catalogue; 4. Surveying the forest; 5. Is morphosyntactic variability gradient? Exploring dialect continua; 6. Classification: the dialect area scenario; 7. Back to the features; 8. Summary and discussion; 9. Outlook and concluding remarks.

About the author

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi studied English Philology, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and at Georgetown University (Washington DC). He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English Philology from the University of Freiburg. Until 2012, he did postdoctoral research at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, before taking up a lectureship in English linguistics at the University of Manchester. He joined the University of Leuven in autumn 2013.

Summary

An exploration of grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties. The book presents a new approach known as 'corpus-based dialectometry', which focuses on the joint quantitative measurement of dozens of grammatical features to gauge regional differences.

Product details

• Authors: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (Professor of Linguistics Szmrecsanyi, Szmrecsanyi Benedikt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107515772
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51577-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Studies in English Language; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Dialect, slang & jargon, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Dialect, slang and jargon