Syntactic Variation and Unconscious Linguistic Change: A Study of Adjectival Relative Clauses in the Dialect of Dorset - Couverture souple

Van Den Eynden, Nadine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3631458363 ISBN 13 : 9783631458365

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, 1993

Synopsis

By examining adjectival relative clauses in the dialect of Dorset, in the Southwest of England, this volume illustrates how contemporary British dialects can contribute to our understanding of (unconscious) linguistic change. The analysis, which is based upon tape-recorded interviews with numerous informants, as well as written dialect imitations extracted from a variety of sources, shows that dialectal relativization is governed by an intricate network of both linguistic and non-linguistic (i.e. regional, social, stylistic) factors. The corpus has been incorporated in its entirety and perfectly lends itself for further dialectological research.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Nadine Van den Eynden studied Germanic Philology at the Ignatiustacuiteiten/Universiteit van Antwerpen and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where she obtained her Ph.D. in 1991. Presently, she is working as a lecturer of English at the Katholieke Vlaamse Hogeschool voor Vertalers en Tolken in Antwerp and as Maître de Conférence Invité at the Université Catholique de Louvain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang GmbH
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631458363
• ISBN 13: 9783631458365
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 381
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne