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020			_a9781107003453 (hardback)
020			_a1107003458 (hardback)
040			_cNY
050	0	0	_aPE1736 _bS96 2013
100	1		_aSzmrecsanyi, Benedikt, _d1976-
245	1	0	_aGrammatical variation in British English dialects : _ba study in corpus-based dialectometry / _cBenedikt Szmrecsanyi.
260			_aCambridge, [England] ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_axvi, 211 p. : _bill., maps (chiefly col.) ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aStudies in English language
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 190-206) and index.
505	0		_a1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 3. The feature catalogue -- 4. Surveying the forest: on aggregate morphosyntactic distances and similarities -- 5. Is morphosyntactic variability gradient? Exploring dialect continua -- 6. Classification: the dialect area scenario -- 7. Back to the features -- 8. Summary and discussion -- 9. Outlook and concluding remarks.
520			_a"Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This book explores grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties. In doing so it presents a new approach known as 'corpus-based dialectometry', which focuses on the joint quantitative measurement of dozens of grammatical features to gauge regional differences. These features include, for example, multiple negation (e.g. don't you make no damn mistake), non-standard verbals (e.g. so I says, What have you to do?), or non-standard weak past tense and past participle forms (e.g. they knowed all about these things). Utilizing state-of-the-art dialectometrical analysis and visualization techniques, the book is original both in terms of its fundamental research question ('What are the large-scale patterns of grammatical variability in British English dialects?') as well as in terms of its methodology"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xDialects _zGreat Britain.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xVariation _zGreat Britain.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xGrammaticalization.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xSyntax.
650		7	_aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. _2bisacsh
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xLanguages.
830		0	_aStudies in English language.
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