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A comparative grammar of British English dialects [electronic resource] : agreement, gender, relative clauses / by Bernd Kortmann ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Kortmann, Bernd, 1960- | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Topics in English linguistics: 50.1.Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2005Description: x, 371 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Subject(s): English language -- Agreement | English language -- Dialects -- Great Britain | English language -- Gender | English language -- Relative clauses | English language -- Great Britain -- Grammar | Great Britain -- LanguagesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 427 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The Freiburg English Dialect Project and corpus / Bernd Kortmann, Susanne Wagner -- Relative clauses in English dialects of the British Isles / Tanja Hermann -- "Some do and some doesn't" : verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles / Lukas Pietsch -- Gender in English pronouns : southwest England / Susanne Wagner

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Freiburg English Dialect Project and corpus / Bernd Kortmann, Susanne Wagner -- Relative clauses in English dialects of the British Isles / Tanja Hermann -- "Some do and some doesn't" : verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles / Lukas Pietsch -- Gender in English pronouns : southwest England / Susanne Wagner

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