Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses

by Nuria Hernández, Daniela Kolbe, Monika Edith Schulz

Overview

This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects. The book again offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles. The three parts investigate complement clauses (Daniela Kolbe), personal pronouns (Nuria Hernández) and modals (Monika Edith Schulz). The volume is of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone working on the structure of spontaneous spoken English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110240283
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	12/23/2011
Series:	Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , #50
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nuria Hernández, Universityät Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Daniela Kolbe, Universityät Trier, Germany; Monika Schulz, Universityät Hamburg, Germany.

Table of Contents

Preface v

Acknowledgements vi

General introduction Nuria Hernández Daniela Kolbe Monika Edith Schulz 1

1 Dialect syntax 1

2 Dialectology and corpus linguistics 3

3 The Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects 5

4 Aims and Outline 9

Notes 12

References 13

Possession and obligation Monika Edith Schulz 19

1 Introduction 19

2 Possession and obligation 22

3 Grammaticalization 23

4 had and got: Disambiguating past possession and past obligation 25

5 Past possession and past obligation in the Midlands and the North 38

6 Past possession and negation 42

7 Past obligation and negation 43

8 Present tense obligation and the trend towards monosemy 45

9 Summary 47

References 49

Personal pronouns Nuria Hernández 53

1 Introduction 53

2 Two hierarchies 62

3 Variation in number and person 65

4 Variation in gender 73

5 Pronoun exchange 94

6 Case variation in prepositional phrases 126

7 Qualified pronouns 139

8 Synopsis and discussion 156

Appendix 169

Notes 174

References 181

Complement clauses Daniela Kolbe 193

1 Introduction 193

2 Data and methods 201

3 Embedded inversion 221

4 The complementizer as 244

5 For to clauses 255

6 Conclusion 288

Appendix 293

Notes 299

References 303

Index 315