Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects: A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry

by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107515777
• ISBN13: 9781107515772
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"