Ditransitives in British English Dialects
| By: | Johanna Gerwin |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Print ISBN: | 9783110352146 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783110373585 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.