Negation in Non-Standard British English Gaps, Regularizations and Asymmetries |
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| Author:
| Anderwald, Lieselotte |
| Series title: | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-25874-6 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2002 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $247.00 |
Book Description:
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Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard. English dialect grammar, however, is still a new and relatively undeveloped area of research, and most studies to date are either restricted regionally, or based on impressionistic statements. This book provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation across Great Britain.
Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard. English dialect grammar, however, is still a new and relatively undeveloped area of research, and most studies to date are either restricted regionally, or based on impressionistic statements. This book provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation across Great Britain.