Negation in Non-Standard British English - Gaps, Regularizations and Asymmetries

Informationen zum Autor Lieselotte Anderwald Klappentext Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard. English dialect grammar, however, is still a new and relatively undeveloped area of research, and most studies to date are either restricted regionally, or based on impressionistic statements. This book provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation across Great Britain. Zusammenfassung Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that can be found in everyday spoken language and provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. Negation in Standard English3. Regional Variation4. Filling the Gaps?5. Negative Concord6. Ain't7. Third Person Singular Don't 8. Past Tense Be9. Conclusion

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• Authors: L. Anderwald, Lieselotte Anderwald, Anderwald Liese, Anderwald Lieselotte
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2002
• EAN: 9780415258746
• ISBN: 978-0-415-25874-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic; Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics; Routledge Studies in Germanic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Englisch, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Literature: history & criticism, Language: history & general works, Literature: history and criticism, Language: history and general works