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What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alternation’ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.
Price: $160.99
Pages: 251
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date:
26 May 2014
ISBN: 9783110352146
Format: Hardcover
Johanna Gerwin, Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.