Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses
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Nuria Hernández, Daniela Kolbe, Monika Edith Schulz
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Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses
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De Gruyter Mouton
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9783110240290
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Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN
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1
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CHF 159.40
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Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
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English
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328
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< >This is the second volume of the multi-volume set
A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects
. The book again offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles. The three parts investigate complement clauses (Daniela Kolbe), personal pronouns (Nuria Hernández) and modals (Monika Edith Schulz). The volume is of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone working on the structure of spontaneous spoken English.
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Nuria Hernández
, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany;
Daniela Kolbe
, Universität Trier, Germany;
Monika Schulz
, Universität Hamburg, Germany.
Preface
6
Acknowledgements
7
Table of contents
8
General introduction
10
1. Dialect syntax
10
2. Dialectology and corpus linguistics
12
3. The Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects
14
4. Aims and Outline
18
Notes
21
References
22
Possession and obligation
28
1. Introduction
28
2. Possession and obligation
31
3. Grammaticalization
32
4. HAD and GOT: Disambiguating past possession and past obligation
34
5. Past possession and past obligation in the Midlands and the North
47
6. Past possession and negation
51
7. Past obligation and negation
52
8. Present tense obligation and the trend towards monosemy
54
9. Summary
56
References
58
Personal pronouns
62
1. Introduction
62
2. Two hierarchies
71
3. Variation in number and person
74
4. Variation in gender
82
5. Pronoun exchange
103
6. Case variation in prepositional phrases
135
7. Qualified pronouns
148
8. Synopsis and discussion
165
Appendix
178
Notes
183
References
190
Complement clauses
202
1. Introduction
202
2. Data and methods
210
3. Embedded inversion
230
4. The complementizer as
253
5. For to clauses
264
6. Conclusion
297
Appendix
302
Notes
308
References
312
Index
324
