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

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

Viereck, Wolfgang
Van Den Eynden, Nadine

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Series: Bamberger Beitraege Zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft / Bamb, Book 33

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ISBN10: 3631458363
ISBN13: 9783631458365
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Apr 1 1993
Pages: 364
Language: English
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.

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