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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Gerwin, Johanna
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| Publisher: |
Walter de Gruyter
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| Date: |
05/26/2014
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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.
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