Grammatical variation in British English dialects : a study in corpus-based dialectometry
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Grammatical variation in British English dialects : a study in corpus-based dialectometry
（Studies in English language）
Cambridge University Press, 2013
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-206) and index
"This book is a revised version of my Habilitation thesis, which I submitted to the University of Freiburg in 2011."--Pref
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Description
Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This book explores grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties. In doing so it 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. These features include, for example, multiple negation (e.g. don't you make no damn mistake), non-standard verbal-s (e.g. so I says, What have you to do?), or non-standard weak past tense and past participle forms (e.g. they knowed all about these things). Utilizing state-of-the-art dialectometrical analysis and visualization techniques, the book is original both in terms of its fundamental research question ('What are the large-scale patterns of grammatical variability in British English dialects?') and in terms of its methodology.
Table 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.
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