Regional Variation in Written American English

by Jack Grieve

Book Overview

The first study of its kind, Regional Variation in Written American English takes a corpus-based approach to map over one hundred grammatical alternation variables across the United States. A multivariate spatial analysis of these maps shows that grammatical alternation variables follow a relatively small number of common regional patterns in American English, which can be explained based on both linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Based on this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108712967
• ISBN13: 9781108712965
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"