Relative Clauses : Structure and Variation in Everyday English Paperback / softback
by Andrew (University of Essex) Radford
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:20/06/2019
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- ISBN:9781108729680
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:20/06/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108729680
