Ditransitives in British English Dialects.
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, lang...
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2014.
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| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics TiEL.
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