Negation in non-standard British English : gaps, regularizations, and asymmetries / Lieselotte Anderwald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderwald, Lieselotte, 1969-

Series:

Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics ; 8.

Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Negatives.

English language.

English language--Variation--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Negation in standard; 3 Regional variation; 4 Filling the gaps?; 5 Negative concord; 6 AIN'T; 7 Third person singular don't; 8 Past tense BE; 9 Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Cover title : Negation in non-standard British English.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-51383-6

1-134-51384-4

1-138-97686-5

1-280-05905-2

0-203-16750-3

9780203167502

OCLC:

252904767