What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this 'dative alternation' as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.
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Für Beruf und Forschung
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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978-3-11-037358-5 (9783110373585)
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Johanna Gerwin, Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.
