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Beschreibung
Where do dialects differ from Standard English, and why are they so remarkably resilient? This study argues that commonly used verbs that deviate from Standard English for the most part have a long pedigree. Analysing the language use of over 120 dialect speakers, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not only are speakers justified historically in using these verbs, systematically these non-standard forms actually make more sense. By constituting a simpler system, they are generally more economical than their Standard English counterparts. Drawing on data collected from the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), this innovative and engaging study will be of great interest to students and researchers of English language and linguistics, morphology and syntax.
Where do dialects differ from Standard English, and why are they so remarkably resilient? This study argues that commonly used verbs that deviate from Standard English for the most part have a long pedigree. Analysing the language use of over 120 dialect speakers, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not only are speakers justified historically in using these verbs, systematically these non-standard forms actually make more sense. By constituting a simpler system, they are generally more economical than their Standard English counterparts. Drawing on data collected from the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), this innovative and engaging study will be of great interest to students and researchers of English language and linguistics, morphology and syntax.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Past tense theories; 3. Naturalness and the English past tense system; 4. Sellt and knowed: non-standard weak verbs; 5. Drunk, seen, done and eat: 2-part instead of 3-part paradigms; 6. Come and run: non-standard strong verbs with a 1-part paradigm; 7. Conclusion: supralocalization and morphological theories.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781107407695
ISBN-10: 1107407699
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Anderwald, Lieselotte
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Lieselotte Anderwald
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2012
Gewicht: 0,354 kg
Artikel-ID: 106339087