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Belfast English and standard English : dialect variation and parameter setting / Alison Henry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henry, Alison, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in comparative syntax
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dialects--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
- English language.
- Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Social conditions.
- Belfast (Northern Ireland).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 148 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author of this treatise analyzes various syntactic constructions in Belfast English, and compares them with their Standard English counterparts to gain insight into both English syntax and general syntactic theory.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Subject-Verb Agreement; 3. Overt-Subject Imperatives; 4. For-To Infinitives; 5. Inversion in Embedded Questions; 6. Subject Contact Relatives; 7. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p142-146. - Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-146) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772130-3
- 1-280-52684-X
- 0-19-535949-6
- 1-4294-0014-5
- OCLC:
- 191948440
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