Ditransitives in British English Dialects. Gerwin, J. De Gruyter Mouton, June, 2014.
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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.
@book{gerwin_ditransitives_2014,
	title = {Ditransitives in {British} {English} {Dialects}},
	copyright = {De Gruyter expressly reserves the right to use all content for commercial text and data mining within the meaning of Section 44b of the German Copyright Act.},
	isbn = {978-3-11-035232-0},
	url = {https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110352320/html?lang=en},
	abstract = {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.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2024-06-14},
	publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton},
	author = {Gerwin, Johanna},
	month = jun,
	year = {2014},
	doi = {10.1515/9783110352320},
	keywords = {Dative Alternation, Dialect Syntax, Language Change, Regional/Register Variation},
}

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