A comparative grammar of British English dialects
Subtitle: agreement, gender, relative clauses
By: by Bernd Kortmann ... [et al.].
Contributors: Kortmann, Bernd, 1960-
Series: Topics in English linguistics ;; 50.1
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- Great Britain.; English language -- Great Britain -- Grammar.; English language -- Relative clauses.; English language -- Agreement.; English language -- Gender.; Great Britain -- Languages.
Description: "This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles written from a typological perspective. All studies make use of the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), a computerized corpus for predominantly British English dialects.

Systematic comparative analyses of the following three domains of grammar form the backbone of the volume: relativization strategies in Scottish English, Northern Irish English, and in four major dialect areas in England (Hermann), the so-called Northern Subject Rule, a special agreement phenomenon known from Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland (Pietsch), and pronominal gender, with a special focus on the typologically rather unique semantic gender system in the dialects of Southwest England (Wagner)." "This volume will be of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone interested in the structure of spontaneous spoken English."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Freiburg English Dialect Project and corpus / Bernd Kortmann, Susanne Wagner; title: Relative clauses in English dialects of the British Isles / Tanja Hermann; title: "Some do and some doesn't" : verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles / Lukas Pietsch; title: Gender in English pronouns : southwest England / Susanne Wagner