Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses

by Susanne Wagner, Tanja Herrmann, Bernd Kortmann

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles. All studies draw heavily on the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), a computerized corpus for predominantly British English dialects comprising some 2.5 million words. Besides an account of FRED and the advantages which a functional-typological framework offers for the study of dialect grammar, the volume...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110182998
• ISBN13: 9783110182996
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary