TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nadine van den Eynden
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Syntactic Variation and Unconscious Linguistic Change
T2  - A Study of Adjectival Relative Clauses in the Dialect of Dorset
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1081372
N2  - By examining adjectival relative clauses in the dialect of Dorset, in the Southwest of England, this volume illustrates how contemporary British dialects can contribute to our understanding of (unconscious) linguistic change. The analysis, which is based upon tape-recorded interviews with numerous informants, as well as written dialect imitations extracted from a variety of sources, shows that dialectal relativization is governed by an intricate network of both linguistic and non-linguistic (i.e. regional, social, stylistic) factors. The corpus has been incorporated in its entirety and perfectly lends itself for further dialectological research.
LA  - English
ER  -