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Using novel examples from live, unscripted radio/TV broadcasts and the internet, this path-breaking book will force us to reconsider the nature of everyday English and its complex interplay of syntactic, pragmatic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic factors. Uncovering unusual types of non-standard relative clauses, Andrew Radford develops theoretically sophisticated analyses in an area that has traditionally hardly been touched on: that of nonstandard (yet not clearly dialectal) variation in English. Making sense of a huge amount of data, the book demonstrates that some types of non-standard relative clauses have a complex syntactic structure of their own in which the relation between the relative clause and its antecedent is either syntactically encoded or pragmatic in nature, while others come about as a result of hypercorrection, and yet others arise from processing errors.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139781108492805
eBay Product ID (ePID)26046625593
Product Key Features
Number of Pages324 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRelative Clauses: Structure and Variation in Everyday English
Publication Year2019
TypeStudy Guide
AuthorAndrew Radford
Subject AreaData Analysis
SeriesCambridge Studies in Linguistics
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight590 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAndrew Radford