Relative clauses : structure and variation in everyday English
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Relative clauses : structure and variation in everyday English
（Cambridge studies in linguistics, 161）
Cambridge University Press, 2019
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- : hardback
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Glossary and abbreviations: p. 245-271
Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-309) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Using novel examples from live, unscripted radio/TV broadcasts and the internet, this path-breaking book will force us to reconsider the nature of everyday English and its complex interplay of syntactic, pragmatic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic factors. Uncovering unusual types of non-standard relative clauses, Andrew Radford develops theoretically sophisticated analyses in an area that has traditionally hardly been touched on: that of nonstandard (yet not clearly dialectal) variation in English. Making sense of a huge amount of data, the book demonstrates that some types of non-standard relative clauses have a complex syntactic structure of their own in which the relation between the relative clause and its antecedent is either syntactically encoded or pragmatic in nature, while others come about as a result of hypercorrection, and yet others arise from processing errors.
Table of Contents
- Prologue
- 1. Background
- 2. Resumptive relatives
- 3. Prepositional relatives
- 4. Gapless relatives
- Epilogue.
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