Regional Variation in Written American English

This innovative text is the first to map regional grammatical variation in written Standard American English.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Corpus; 3. Grammatical analysis; 4. Spatial analysis; 5. Multivariate analysis; 6. Sources of regional linguistic variation; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Jack Grieve is Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics in the School of Languages and Social Sciences at Aston University. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University, where he studied quantitative corpus linguistics under the supervision of Professor Douglas Biber. Before coming to Aston, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in Professor Dirk Geeraerts' Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics research unit at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Summary

Taking a corpus-based approach, this innovative and groundbreaking text maps regional grammatical variation in written American English. A statistical analysis of these maps demonstrates for the first time that regional variation exists in written Standard American English, and identifies modern American dialect regions.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Jack Grieve, Jack Grieve
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107032477
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03247-7
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Studies in English Language; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, American English, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology