Using novel examples from live, unscripted radio/TV broadcasts and the internet, this path-breaking book will force us to reconsider the nature of everyday English and its complex interplay of syntactic, pragmatic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic factors. Uncovering unusual types of non-standard relative clauses, Andrew Radford develops theoretically sophisticated analyses in an area that has traditionally hardly been touched on: that of nonstandard (yet not clearly dialectal) variation in English. Making sense of a huge amount of data, the book demonstrates that some types of non-standard relative clauses have a complex syntactic structure of their own in which the relation between the relative clause and its antecedent is either syntactically encoded or pragmatic in nature, while others come about as a result of hypercorrection, and yet others arise from processing errors.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781108492805
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-108-49280-5
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.05.2019
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2019
- Serie: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 629 g
- Seiten: 324
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 22 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt